Compared to the great apes, humans have an exceptionally long childhood ... dated to around 1.77 million years ago. "Childhood and cognition do not fossilize, so we have to rely on indirect ...

Interestingly, this fossil fills a 70-million-year-long gap in our knowledge between the early bird-like dinosaurs ...

Signs of temporarily delayed tooth development in the skull of an ancient Homo species youth spark debate about the origins of humanlike growth.

Putting together the puzzle of human evolution sometimes comes down to about 32 pieces ... In the new study, Zollikofer and ...

This finding challenges the conventional belief that human civilisation and the development of advanced construction techniques emerged only … with the advent of agriculture approximately 11,000 years ...

A newly unearthed archaeological site in Tajikistan dating to as far as 150,000 years ago played a key role in the migration ...