Learn how early hominins crafted the same sharp-edged Oldowan tools through 300,000 years of climate change, revealing one of ...

Researchers uncovered a 2.75–2.44 million-year-old site in Kenya showing that early humans maintained stone tool traditions for nearly 300,000 years despite extreme climate swings. The tools, ...

Although current AI tools bring us to an incredibly impressive point, without contextual intelligence, they fall short in ...

Imagine early humans meticulously crafting stone tools for nearly 300,000 years, all while contending with recurring ...

Humans stand out among mammals for our ability to run long distances without falling apart. That ability links back to early ...

The very first humans millions of years ago may have been inventors, according to a discovery in northwest Kenya. Researchers ...

New evidence from South China reveals how early humans adapted to environmental transformations during the Late Pleistocene.

Anthropologist Christopher Bae has recently suggested we add two new species of ancient human to our family tree. The plans ...

Genetic tweaks allowed early humans to stand, balance and walk on two legs instead of moving on all fours like other primates ...

Two small changes in human DNA may have played a big role in helping our ancestors walk upright, researchers say.

We now have only the second high-quality genome from an ancient Denisovan human, which reveals there were more populations of ...

The role of megafaunal exploitation in early human evolution remains debated. Occasional use of large carcasses by early hominins has been considered by some as opportunistic, possibly a fallback ...