Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary ...

Recent discoveries of fossilized footprints have provided intriguing evidence that suggests pre-human species were more ...

Denisovans were first discovered as another relation to modern humans in 2010—It turns out they might be our closest relative ...

Hundreds of stone tools discovered in Kenya have revealed that human relatives traveled long distances to find raw material.

Researchers have uncovered a complete Quina technological system in the Longtan site in southwest China. The discovery challenges the widely held perception that the Middle Paleolithic period was ...

Fossilized teeth show that two different kinds of ancient human ancestors coexisted more than 2 million years ago. One of ...

Scientists find genetic mutation, millions of years ago. Oct. 12, 2011 — -- About three million years ago human predecessors embarked on a new course that would forever alter the evolution of our ...

What's the link between an exploding star, climate change and human evolution? Francis Thackeray, who has researched ancient ...