The exact relationships between all these early human relatives are still a bit murky. It could be that H. erectus is ...

How did early human ancestors obtain their food? It may sound like a trivial question, but it has significant implications ...

But for earlier humans, meat consumption appeared to be a critical, yet somewhat poorly understood, contributor to ...

A new study of six Homo erectus individuals from China reveals one amino acid variant that distinguished this archaic human ...

For decades, textbooks painted a dramatic picture of early humans as tool-using hunters who rose quickly to the top of the food chain. The tale was that Homo habilis, one of the earliest ...

WASHINGTON — Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra. This adaptability is a skill that long predates the modern age.

Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago. The selection of rock type depended on how easily the material could be ...