A recent Dear Darwin piece focused on an increasingly difficult question to answer: What are men good for? Though there are many competing hypotheses as to how the remote-control hording gender gained ...

Archeologists know early humans used stone to make tools long before the time of Homo sapiens. But a new discovery out this week in Nature suggests early humans in eastern Africa were also using ...

For millions of years, early human ancestors relied on stone tools to shape their world. The discovery of a collection of 27 standardized bone tools dating back 1.5 million years challenges long ...

In modern-day humans, the brain is about 60 percent fat, and protein – Greek for “of utmost importance” – makes up about 20 percent of the body. Carrion bones may also have stimulated technological ...

Early humans might have danced to attract a mate, as far back as 1.5 million years ago, according to Steven J. Mithen, an archaeologist at the University of Reading in the United Kingdom.

In this episode of Misconceptions, host Justin Dodd breaks down some common myths about our early human ancestors—and what makes our species, Homo sapiens, so different from them.

Around 400,000 years ago, early humans hunted beavers as a food resource and possibly also for their pelts. This is the conclusion of a team from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), the ...

Early humans used animal bones to craft tools — more than a million years earlier than scientists previously thought, according to new research published this week. A group of researchers from ...

A recent study sheds new light on the ecological adaptability of early humans at the time when they first expanded their range outside Africa, 2--1 million years ago.

The extinction rate of these animals increased fivefold when early humans evolved around 1.8 million years ago, the study concludes, and rose even higher when modern humans appeared.

Early Humans May Have Cooked Fish 780,000 Years Ago New research adds to the debate about when humans began cooking with fire. Sarah Kuta - Daily Correspondent. November 16, 2022.

Florence Pugh posted a photo of herself wearing a face sheet mask on her Instagram Stories on Monday, Aug. 19, as she prepared for an early morning start.