Multiple "Homo" lineages existed during the Middle Pleistocene period, each of which had diverse physical forms, according to ...

For decades, textbooks painted a dramatic picture of early humans as tool-using hunters who rose quickly to the top of the ...

It's a long-held belief that one of our earliest ancestors, Homo habilis, was the first of our genus to transition from prey to predator. Archaeological evidence suggests that they were among the ...

The findings have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers said.

Learn more about the reconstruction of the Yunxian 2 cranium, and about what it might mean for the history of three human ...

Homo habilis was thought to be the first hominin to use stone tools for hunting and processing meat, but they might have been ...

A new study may be about to rewrite a part of our early human history. It has long been thought that Homo habilis, often ...

When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the ...

A paper reveals a persuasive case that an extinct human ancestor tried to hibernate. The evidence is from nutritional ...

Researchers have virtually reconstructed a crushed and distorted 1 million-year-old human skull discovered in China. The newly restored cranium may have belonged to a relative of the mysterious ...

Continuous landmasses, now submerged, may have made it possible for early humans to cross between present-day Turkey and ...

Early human ancestors during the Old Stone Age were more picky about the rocks they used for making tools than previously known, according to research published Friday. Not only did these early people ...