The emergence of artistic expression, abstract thought, and symbolic behavior may have occurred much earlier in human history ...

Short snouts and a flat profile—within a span of 100 years, humans have significantly changed the shape of the skulls of ...

New research shows that ancient humans, Australopithecus, had a plant-based diet, challenging long-held meat-eating theories.

Hominid footprints found on Crete date back 5.6 million years, making them by far the oldest ever discovered in Europe.

A research team, led by Ohio University’s Sabrina Curran, has discovered evidence that human ancestors arrived in Europe ...

Researchers have extracted ancient proteins from australopithecine fossils and determined whether they were male or female — ...

A paleontologist journeys through Indonesia’s Riau Archipelago in search of our earliest ancestors, and uncovers how ...

A cooperation experiment shows for the first time that animals, as well as people, are capable of communicating new ...

The Dawn of Mankind Our journey begins in the depths of time, where our earliest ancestors roamed the earth. These ...

They say it's important to look to the past in order to move forward into the future. Humans have evolved considerably, but ...

Hominins are believed to have started leaving Africa around 2 million years ago, spreading out into Eurasia. The earliest indisputable fossil evidence of hominins outside of Africa comes from ...

Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare. She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of ...