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 ...
A newly unearthed archaeological site in Tajikistan dating to as far as 150,000 years ago played a key role in the migration ...
An analysis looking at the hand bones of australopithecines, apes and humans reveals that tool use likely evolved before the ...
Lucy, a fossilized skeleton unearthed 50 years ago this month, transformed scientists’ understanding of human evolution.
In southern Serbia, the remains of a prehistoric house dating back around 8,000 years ago were recently unearthed. The discovery could reveal new insights into what ancient societies in Europe looked ...
The findings were published in PLOS ONE, a science journal, highlighting and emphasizing how important this discovery is for ...
Why is human culture—the shared body of knowledge passed down across generations—so much more powerful than animal cultures?