A new study suggests an enzyme unique to Homo sapiens may have made us more competitive water seekers than our closest ...

Israeli-French research applies new techniques to a fossilized child's skull found in northern Israeli cave, and finds ...

The find suggests that as many as four different hominin lineages lived in eastern Africa between 2.5 million and 3 million ...

Discovered approximately 90 years ago, the fossil was reanalyzed using advanced micro-CT scanning and 3D modeling. A ...

Some stone tools found near a river on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi suggest that the first hominins had reached the ...

When the bones were first excavated from Skhul Cave in northern Israel in 1931, archaeologists recognized that the child ...

Past investigations have already showcased that the ability to speak in a particular language was facilitated in the Homo ...

An international study led by researchers from Tel Aviv University and the French National Center for Scientific Research ...

A non-human creature dubbed Homo naledi was discovered nearly a decade ago — and researchers now believe the creature may have had a head start on Homo sapiens, or humans, in using fire as a tool.

Homo naledi, an extinct human relative, buried dead and carved symbols long before modern humans, new research at the Rising Star cave system in South Africa found.

Humans Homo naledi may have made etchings on cave walls and buried its dead New discoveries suggest that Homo naledi, an ancient and primitive hominin, may have displayed complex behaviour despite ...