From the time hominids walked erect, they relied on routines to endure. As psychologist Jim Taylor explained, feelings of ...

It was already pretty hot by the time Donald Johanson and his graduate student, Tom Gray, arrived at the site at Hadar, ...

Scientists make their case for classifying an extinct group that lived in northern China until 120,000 years ago as a ...

Sometime between 200,000 and 160,000 years ago, a group of early hominids who lived in what is now northern China were pursuing their next meal. They were skilled, organised hunters, having ...

Perhaps most importantly, Lucy’s discovery foreshadowed a series of fossil finds that filled in the scientific picture of her species. By 1978, enough evidence had accumulated to establish Lucy as the ...

A NEW species of human with bigger brains and heads has been unearthed, claim Chinese archaeologists. Researchers alleged ...

The fellowship that we call humanity contains some unlikely characters, not least of all a diminutive extinct species known ...

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Noting that modern human kids are often passionate about amassing stickers, sea shells, and even bottle tops, the researchers ...

Recent research challenges the theory that long childhood in humans is due to large brain sizes. Instead, analysis of early ...

Could social bonds be the key to human big brains? A study of the fossil teeth of early Homo from Georgia dating back 1.77 million years reveals a prolonged childhood despite a small brain and an ...

In 1911, an extraordinary archaeological discovery was made in the small coastal town of Clacton-on-Sea (Essex, England).