A recent groundbreaking study has radically altered our understanding of human evolution. Homo sapiens, traditionally thought ...

New research uncovers how two ancient hominids used their hands in unique ways for climbing, tool use, and movement.

Mar. 18, 2025 — Humans' unique language capacity was present at least 135,000 years ago, according to a survey of genomic evidence ... Is the Prelude to the Evolution of a Large Brain Nov ...

In groundbreaking work from the University of Warwick, researchers have found that wild orangutans vocalise with a layered complexity previously thought to be unique to human communication, suggesting ...

Scientists have found new evidence for how our fossil human relatives in South Africa may have used their hands. Researchers investigated variation in finger bone morphology to determine that South ...

The tools, found in an area where an ancient rainforest once stood, push back the oldest known evidence of humans in similar environments by 80,000 years.

For the past 150 years, scientists and laypeople alike have accepted a “savanna” scenario of human evolution. The theory, primarily based on fossil evidence, suggests that because our ancestral ape ...

These discoveries suggest that humans were able to live in rainforest before they left Africa, the home of our species. Until ...

Scientists have found new evidence for how our fossil human relatives in South Africa may have used their hands.

The enlightened truth of the role of fire in human evolution. Illustration by Paul ... Archaeological evidence suggests that the controlled use of fire began with Homo erectus, who emerged nearly ...

Administration has attempted to censor federal scientific data, cut billions in government spending on research ...