Archaeologists have uncovered the oldest known handheld wooden tools, dating back 430,000 years, at the Marathousa 1 site in ...

Long before humans became master hunters, our ancestors were already thriving by making the most of what nature left behind. New research suggests that scavenging animal carcasses wasn’t a desperate ...

Researchers have unearthed tooth fossils in Ethiopia dating to about 2.65 million years ago of a previously unknown species in the human evolutionary lineage, one that lived in the same time and place ...

Gut Microbes may have helped fuel the evolution of large human brains, shaping brain metabolism and gene activity, new ...

The development of AI is expected to bring about major changes in society, but the impact of AI will not be limited to society, but may also affect the evolution of humans as a living organism. Robert ...

"Researchers have argued for decades that while hominins in Africa and western Europe demonstrated significant technological ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A reconstruction of the crushed skull labelled Yunxian 2, which has features that are closer to species thought to have existed ...

Our species, Homo sapiens, has been evolving for more than 300,000 years, but the story of human origins starts much earlier.