For more than 50 years, since the discovery of the skull of Paranthropus boisei, an extinct human relative known for its extremely powerful jaws and massive teeth, ...

Recent discoveries have unveiled a fascinating chapter in human history, as stone tools provide compelling evidence of ...

Research into changing tool use by wild chimpanzees suggests evolutionary origins of Alzheimer's disease and related disorders.For decades, scientists ...

Traditionally, paleoanthropologists believed that Homo habilis, as the earliest big-brained humans, was responsible for the earliest sites with tools. The idea has been that Homo habilis was the ...

A new study suggests that scavenging—the act of eating the meat of dead animals—may have played a much bigger role in human ...

Unlocking the Secrets of Language Learning Introduction: The Legacy of Linguistic Discovery The Rosetta Stone is not merely a historical artifact; it represents a monumental breakthrough in the field ...

Published in the Journal of Human Evolution, the research reexamines scavenging through the lens of optimal foraging theory, ...

Venus figurines, with exaggerated sexual characteristics such as big hips and breasts, began appearing about 40,000 years ago ...

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

Thanks to a major breakthrough, we may soon learn everything about one of the most debated prehistoric human ancestors, the ...

Stretching from western Anatolia to southeastern Europe, this previously unknown land bridge may have been a migration route ...

Learn more about the differences between Lebanese and Italian tools, which contradict the theory that modern human migrations ...