In recent years, there have been numerous studies that compare anatomically modern humans – our direct ancestors – to other ...

More than 60,000 years ago, humans living in southern Africa realized they could use ostrich eggshells to hold water. They etched intricate designs—from grids to diamond-shaped motifs—into these ...

ST PAUL, Minn. — Decades of history can be found in a single painting. Fern Cloud is a Native American artist who shares her peoples' stories by preserving the way her ancestors told them: through ...

For decades, scientists have been learning more about the diets of early hominins, particularly their reliance on plants. Yet we still don't know when these ancestors of humans started eating meat.

Our limited understanding of the metabolism of our microbial ancestor is a sizeable gap in our knowledge of how complex life ...

Early human ancestors may have learned to walk upright on two legs up in the trees rather than on the firm ground of Africa's ancient savannah. A first-of-its-type study led by researchers at the Max ...

Mushrooms have been used by ancient humans for millennia, but archaeologists have only just uncovered their pivotal role in ...

Studying human evolution involves piecing together scattered clues about how we survived against tough odds. One of the biggest mysteries is understanding how large or small ancient human populations ...