Beyond mere biological evolution, the story of our species is filled with cultural and technological revolutions that have ...

Neanderthals tended to bury their dead in caves, while early modern humans buried their dead in the fetal position, new ...

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 ...

A study comparing fossil skulls and great ape anatomy reveals how ... Temporal lobe size changes were linked to early hominins adapting to new environments. Fossil Homo sapiens had smaller temporal ...

Archaeologists have found evidence that dramatically rewrites human history. A 210,000-year-old Homo sapiens skull fragment ...

A skull unearthed in Greece has been ... although it's not clear if Homo sapiens was involved, or another early African group. "The movement of the people into Europe, that was actually was ...

Today, only one kind of hominid remains: Homo sapiens ... year old. (Early hominids, such as the Australopithecines, grew at a faster rate than modern humans.) This fossilized skull was the ...

A study published today in the journal Nature reveals that the skull, which was originally discovered in Greece in the 1970s, belonged to a member of an early population of Homo sapiens and is ...