Long before humans spread across the globe, a deadly disease may have quietly shaped where our ancestors lived—and even how we evolved. New research reveals that malaria didn’t just threaten early ...
But for earlier humans, meat consumption appeared to be a critical, yet somewhat poorly understood, contributor to ...
Roughly 476,000 years ago, early human ancestors were already building wooden structures, far earlier than scientists thought ...
The peopling of South America has long been debated, with various routes proposed for how they spread across the subcontinent ...
Learn how fossil evidence reveals the repeatable way early humans accessed, processed, and shared meat.
A decline in ancient megafauna in the Middle East coincided with a shift towards smaller, lighter toolkits in the ...
Prehistoric humans in Africa may have avoided areas infested with malaria-spreading mosquitoes, a new study suggests.
Increasing evidence suggests that our species emerged through interactions between populations living in different parts of ...
Neanderthal intelligence may have been similar to modern humans, with research showing minimal cognitive differences between ...
From rigid brow ridges to expressive arches, your eyebrows tell a story of how human faces evolved to signal emotion, ...
A rare fossil discovery in Ethiopia has pushed the known range of Paranthropus hundreds of miles farther north than ever before. The 2.6-million-year-old jaw suggests this ancient relative of humans ...
A University of California, Riverside study reports that cells in the earliest stages of human development could be ...