Building the human story based on a few artefacts is tricky – particularly for wooden tools that don’t preserve well, or cave ...

This artist's impression shows a group of archaic humans hunting in a forest roughly 1 million years ago in China's Hubei Province. The head of the adult male individual holding a wooden spear in the ...

Far below the waves, where sunlight never reaches, a fragment of bone has forced scientists to redraw parts of the human family tree. An ancient jaw dredged from the seafloor between China and Taiwan, ...

He lived hundreds of thousands of years ago, eking out an existence in what is today central China. Sporting a squat neck and a big brain, he likely wielded tools made of stone and hunted or scavenged ...

A single ancient jawbone is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about humanity’s forgotten relatives.

UNLV Anthropology Professor Brian Villmoare and a team of scientists discovered fossilized teeth. UNLV Anthropology Professor Brian Villmoare and a team of international scientists discovered ...

Most people were taught a simple image: monkeys slowly turning into humans. That’s not how evolution works. Humans didn’t evolve from modern monkeys — we share a common ancestor with them, and if you ...

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Learn how an ancient fish gene was repurposed to shape the anatomy of human hands.

(Reuters) -In 1990, an ancient human skull was unearthed in China's Hubei Province that was so badly deformed during fossilization that it was hard to gauge its significance. A new analysis now ...

In 1990, an ancient human skull was unearthed in China's Hubei Province that was so badly deformed during fossilization that it was hard to gauge its significance. A new analysis now indicates that ...