The findings may reveal new insights into early human mating preferences Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty A new study suggests Neanderthal males mated with human females more often than the reverse ...

For decades, textbooks painted a dramatic picture of early humans as tool-using hunters who rose quickly to the top of the food chain. The tale was that Homo habilis, one of the earliest ...

Two small changes in human DNA may have played a big role in helping our ancestors walk upright, researchers say. The study, recently published in the journal Nature, found that these tweaks changed ...

A skull, unearthed nearly a century ago, has led to new revelations in the study of human evolution. Known as “Dragon Man,” the fossil has now been identified as belonging to the Denisovans — a ...

This combination of 2007, 2018 and 2012 photos shows, from left, the Cederberg mountain range in South Africa, the Tenere desert in Niger and savanna in South Africa. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam, ...

The latest discoveries by an international research team, which includes Academy Research Fellow Ferhat Kaya from the ...

As early humans spread from lush African forests into grasslands, their need for ready sources of energy led them to develop a taste for grassy plants, especially grains and the starchy plant tissue ...

A new genetic study has shifted the way scientists describe the origins of modern humans. For many years, the simplest explanation was that Homo sapie.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra. “Our superpower is that we are ecosystem generalists,” said ...

Study: Hominins had a taste for high-carb plants long before they had the teeth to eat them, providing first evidence of behavioral drive in the human fossil record As early humans spread from lush ...