Researchers shed new light on the origins of modern humans
The work, published in Nature, confirms a dispersal of Homo sapiens from southern to eastern Africa immediately preceded the out-of-Africa migration.
North Africans were among the first to colonize the Canary Islands
Study of ancient DNA shows the complexity of human migrations in North African prehistory.
First Anatolian farmers were local hunter-gatherers that adopted agriculture
The first farmers from Anatolia, who brought farming to Europe and represent the single largest ancestral component in modern-day Europeans, are directly descended from local hunter-gatherers who adopted a...
Diet-Related Changes in Human Bite Spread New Speech Sounds
Research sheds light on evolution of new sounds in human history.
Prehistoric Britons rack up food miles for feasts near Stonehenge
Landmark study reveals the monumental distances traveled for national mass gatherings.
From Stone Age chips to microchips: How tiny tools may have made us human
The technology of miniaturization set hominins apart from other primates.
Researchers find a piece of Palaeolithic art featuring birds and humans
An exceptional milestone in European Palaeolithic rock art.
Chimpanzees lose their behavioral and cultural diversity
Human impact reduces the behavioral repertoire of chimpanzees.
Evidence for human involvement in extinction of megafauna in the late Pleistocene
Campo Laborde: A Late Pleistocene giant ground sloth kill and butchering site in the Pampas.
Hundreds of children and llamas sacrificed in a ritual event in 15th century Peru
The largest sacrifice of its kind known from the Americas was associated with heavy rainfall and flooding.
New findings shed light on origin of upright walking in human ancestors
4.5 million-year old fossil shows evidence of greater reliance on bipedalism than previously suggested.
Neanderthals walked upright just like the humans of today
No "primitive" gate as popularly depicted in the past.
