"Early humans, more than 30,000 years ago, did not live in isolation from the animal world; they were integrated into a network of relationships with scavengers," says Baumann. From today's ...

“Did humans evolve like a constantly branching tree? A lot of people think so,” said Milford Wolpoff, a professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan, who was not involved in the study. “But ...

A groundbreaking study led by Bar-Ilan University reveals that starch-rich plants played a central role in the diet of ...

Modern humans can be recognized by their smaller facial structure when compared with Neanderthals and other hominin ancestors ...

For millennia, humans lived as hunter-gatherers. Savannas and forests are often thought of as the cradle of our lineage, but ...

Prof Webb says that “without a doubt, every human has a habit of some kind and almost every animal as well”. Dr Williams believes there are two types of habits. He says the first type is the ...

Early bipeds, such as Ardipithecus kadabba which looked a bit like a gorilla, lived in Africa between 5.8 and 5.2 million years ago. They lived in mosaic habits (a mixture of open and wooded ...

Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and Homo ...

Researchers propose early humans used natural sharp stones before making tools. (photo credit: Michelle R. Bebber and Metin I. Eren, Archaeometry) A team of researchers from the Cleveland Museum ...