In the new study, Zollikofer and his team examined several teeth that were uncovered over 20 years ago in the Caucasus ...

Early humans may have reached adulthood around the same age as great apes, but with a slower, human-like pattern of tooth ...

Some of the first human beings to arrive in Tasmania, over 41,000 years ago, used fire to shape and manage the landscape, about 2,000 years earlier than previously thought.

Did you know that evidence of early human presence in the Philippines dates back an astounding 700,000 years? In 2018, researchers uncovered stone tools and butchered animal remains on the island of ...

Researchers propose a stunning new theory for why Neanderthals and humans started to bury their dead at the same time.

A breakthrough fossil discovery is changing what we know about some of the largest mammals to ever walk the Earth.

Could social bonds be the key to human big brains? A study of the fossil teeth of early Homo from Georgia dating back 1.77 million years reveals, thanks to the European Synchrotron (ESRF) in ...

Signs of temporarily delayed tooth development in the skull of an ancient Homo species youth spark debate about the origins of humanlike growth.

Over 41,000 years ago, Tasmania's first human inhabitants, the Aboriginal Tasmanians, utilized fire to manage and modify ...

Studies reveal ancient humans adapted by increasing amylase genes during two major periods: the advent of cooking several ...

Fossil teeth challenge the idea that large brains drove extended childhood, suggesting cultural transmission shaped human evolution.