A fossil jaw found in Ethiopia shows Paranthropus ranged far north, challenging long-held ideas about early human relatives ...

Meaning doesn’t stay inside individual brains. Shared attention and language allow meaning to become symbolic, social, and cumulative.

Ancient DNA is turning human prehistory into something startlingly intimate. Instead of a clean handoff from one species to another, the last 50,000 years look more like a long, tangled story of ...

Fossils dating back 773,000 years from Thomas Quarry I in Morocco shed new light on the shared ancestry of Homo sapiens, Neandertals, and Denisovans. An international team of researchers has ...

Artificial intelligence allows tracing the evolution of genetic control elements in the developing mammalian cerebellum.

Ancient tools from central China are flipping the script, revealing early humans were far more innovative than history once gave them credit for.

Despite lacking a hippocampus entirely—and having diverged from the mammalian lineage roughly 400 million years ago—larval ...

From ancient hybrid humans to older-than-expected fossils, 2021 delivered several discoveries that reshaped the human evolutionary timeline. These findings challenged long-held assumptions about ...

The Ministry of Youth, Culture and Communication announces that an international research team led first by Fatima-Zohra Sbihi Alaoui and currently by Abderrahim Mohib associate researcher at the ...

The way Sahelanthropus tchadensis moved has long been debated. The discovery of a small bump on the front of the thigh bone is "beyond convincing" evidence this ape was bipedal. When you purchase ...