A new study of ancient footprints is the first ever to show that our early ancestors coexisted in a shared space.

An international team of researchers led by Pere Gelabert and Ron Pinhasi of the University of Vienna and David Reich of ...

The discovery offers new insight into human evolution, particularly between the two early human species, known as hominins — a term for a subdivision of hominids. Hominins are all organisms within the ...

Maybe they helped each other. Maybe they ran from each other. Maybe they ignored each other. It’s long been known that ...

A 1990 federal law requires museums and cultural institutions to inventory remains or items thought to be funerary. But that ...

More than a million years ago, on a hot savannah teeming with wildlife near the shore of what would someday become Lake ...

Remarkably preserved footprints of Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei offer direct evidence that extinct hominin species ...

Ancient footprints discovered in Kenya belong to two different species of human relatives who walked on the same ground at ...

Human remains found buried along the Eel River near the northern border of Mendocino County more than a decade ago have been identified as those of a Washington State man missing since 1986, the ...

Hunter-gatherer children acquire life skills early through community-based learning, demonstrating how egalitarianism and ...

Chimpanzees are known for their remarkable intelligence and use of tools, but could their cultures also evolve over time like ...