When Homo sapiens appeared some 300,000 years ago, at least six other human species already shared the planet. Here, in the studio of paleoartist John Gurche, are model representations of those ...

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A new study suggests that bedbugs were the first urban pest, and their population thrived in that environment. For the bloodsucking insects, it’s been the perfect 13,000-year-long marriage.

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“For early humans, fire use was not a given, and at most archaeological sites dated earlier than 400,000 years ago, there is no evidence of the use of fire. Nevertheless, at a number of early sites, ...

Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins. ... Where these early fossils were found: Jebel Irhoud, Morocco. What experts ...

Ancient tooth enamel proteins have provided powerful clues for researchers studying our very early relatives – Paranthropus robustus, in this instance – and their role in human evolution. This hard ...

The study doesn’t deny that early humans eventually cooked with fire. In fact, there’s evidence that fish were roasted as early as 780,000 years ago at Gesher Benot Ya’aqov, one of the sites ...

The use of fire marks a critical milestone in human evolution, with its initial purposes debated among scholars. While cooking is often cited as the primary driver, a due of researchers at Tel Aviv ...