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

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

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

Stone tools are pictured at the site where archaeologists from Australia and Indonesia found artefacts, which scientists say may be evidence of humans living there 1.5 million years ago, in Soppeng ...