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

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

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

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.

When people imagine the earliest human tools, they usually picture weapons. Stone handaxes, sharpened spears and heavy clubs ...