Scientists have found evidence that an ancient species of human called Denisovans lived at high altitudes in Tibet. The ability to survive in such extreme environments had previously been ...

Scientists say they've found the earliest known evidence of a human presence outside Africa. Stone tools discovered in China suggest primitive humans - or a close relative - were in the region as ...

Specifically, Cann and colleagues hypothesized that the ancestress of all of modern humanity lived only 200,000 years ago, rather than more than a million years ago, when primitive humans first ...

predating any evidence of burial practices by modern humans by a staggering 100,000 years. These remains belong to Homo naledi, a distant relative of Homo sapiens. This primitive species had a ...

The most primitive hominid yet found, this species has more chimpanzee-like features than any other human ancestor. Ardipithecus ramidus may have walked upright. Other fossils discovered with A.

Researchers have identified the first known prehistoric human from Taiwan which may represent an entirely new species that lived as recently as 10,000 years ago. The newly discovered big-toothed h ...

Darren Curnoe, who is an evolutionary biologist at the University of New South Wales, told National Geographic at the time [via IFL Science]: "We have discovered a new population of prehistoric humans ...