A mega-catalog of 1,231 fossils reveals that Homo was never a rare species in Omo-Turkana and rewrites the history of our ...

Ancient DNA from southern Africa is rewriting the story of our species, revealing that some early humans in this region lived ...

A 3.4-million-year-old fossil foot reveals that two early hominin species lived together - A. deyiremeda and A. afarensis.

New research reveals ancient humans in southern Africa lived in isolation for nearly 100,000 years. This led to unique ...

Plants have been part of our diet as long as meat has, with new evidence showing that Neanderthals, early Homo sapiens and ...

Tiny immune cells called microglia protect the central nervous system (CNS) in a multitude of ways: They provide innate ...

Archaeological research once again dispells the widespread belief that our Paleolithic ancestors were primarily meat-eaters, ...

Learn how our human ancestors survived and thrived during climate shifts not by eating more meat, but by mastering plant ...

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new study based on analyses of ...

An ancient, shared set of human-specific genes underwent changes in a geographically isolated population after around 300,000 years ago, scientists say.

Many of the ancient southern Africans, including those who lived between about 10,200 and 1,400 years ago, "fall outside the ...

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new ...