Imagine early humans meticulously crafting stone tools for nearly 300,000 years, all while contending with recurring ...

Genetic tweaks allowed early humans to stand, balance and walk on two legs instead of moving on all fours like other primates ...

Language has enabled humans to innovate, communicate, and thrive globally, with over 7,000 languages spoken today and ...

The very first humans millions of years ago may have been inventors, according to a discovery in northwest Kenya. Researchers ...

Humans stand out among mammals for our ability to run long distances without falling apart. That ability links back to early ...

New research reveals that scavenging may have helped early humans adapt, expand, and endure tough seasons through smart use ...

New evidence from South China reveals how early humans adapted to environmental transformations during the Late Pleistocene.

We now have only the second high-quality genome from an ancient Denisovan human, which reveals there were more populations of ...

Ancient ankle bones of Ardipithecus ramidus reveal how early humans combined climbing and upright walking, reshaping the ...

Learn how early humans evolved at a much faster rate than other apes, adapting larger brains as they developed new ways to ...

Two small genetic changes reshaped the human pelvis, setting our early ancestors on the path to upright walking, scientists say.

In this 4.4-million-year-old skeleton, scientists may have found the missing step between climbing and walking.