Scientists studying a 4.4-million-year-old fossil named Ardi may have uncovered the evolutionary step that turned ancient ...

The new work suggests that scavenging persisted among humans long after hunting emerged. So while it has long been argued ...

A recent study proposes a new paradigm for understanding the role of carrion in the subsistence of human populations ...

That damage adds a layer of challenge to making interpretations of the early humans, the researchers said. Scientists first noticed that the skulls exhibited a mosaic of primitive traits resembling ...

In 1879, a landowner and amateur archaeologist named Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola ventured into a newly discovered cave system in northern Spain. Hoping to find prehistoric tools, he kept his eyes fixed ...

Human beings are born with innate reflexes that come from deep within our primitive brain. As the prefrontal cortex develops within the first year of life these reflexes disappear from the central ...