Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, according to ...

A new study by a Utah anthropologist, based on genetic evidence, concludes that the colonizers of Sahul arrived later than ...

In the humid foothills of the Caucasus Mountains, deep within a carnivore’s bloody lair, an early human ancestor fought a life-or-death struggle, and lost. He had entered the den on a scavenging ...

A tiny pre-human who lived more than 900,000 years ago in what is now Kenya may have been a “short experiment” in evolution that never quite made it, scientists said Thursday. The little skull clearly ...

The earliest Wallacean humans, pre-historic persons known as Homo Erectus, were thought to have only settled in Indonesia's Flores island and Philippines' Luzon island around 1.02 million years ago, ...

It’s been almost 2 million years since the first archaic humans ventured out of their African homeland. Exactly whose idea it ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Homo erectus, long viewed as a crucial evolutionary link between modern humans and their tree-dwelling ancestors, may have been more ape-like than previously thought, scientists ...

About 1.8 million years ago, a boy died. An abcessed tooth suggests an infection may have killed him, although the cause is not certain. His bones were fossilized, and they lay undetected until 1985, ...

Early humans were not the feared masters of the savanna long imagined. On the contrary, some still served as meals for big ...

Oct. 28 (UPI) --The link that early anthropologists hoped would neatly bridge the gap between apes and humankind probably doesn't exist, most scientists now agree. Human evolution, it turns out, looks ...

Just when it seemed that the recent monumental fuss over the origins of modern human beings was beginning to quiet down, an ancient ancestor is once more running wild. Trampling on theories. Appearing ...

Excellent one at A Primate of Modern Aspect: Okay, so we've got lots of increases in brain size, and a few decreases. In the cases where we have decreases, we usually have body size decreases as well.