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Researchers found evidence that suggests Neanderthals could make fire 400,000 years ago at an archaeological site near Suffolk in the United Kingdom. (Jordan Mansfield / Pathways to Ancient Britain ...

Ancient humans arrived in East Asia hundreds of thousands of years earlier than thought - Findings suggest human ancestors spread across Asia earlier, faster and possibly more successfully than common ...

So when did our human ancestors start making tools? Well, the earliest artifacts that we know of date back more than 3 million years, but early finds had been scattered and inconsistent until new ...

Fossil remains discovered in Nikiti, Greece, have fueled debate over whether early human ancestors may have lived in Europe around 7 million years ago. This analysis reviews the anatomical evidence, ...

The oldest distinguishing feature between humans and our ape cousins is our ability to walk on two legs—a trait known as bipedalism. Among mammals, only humans and our ancestors perform this atypical ...

A new study explains why humans have chins while other primates do not. Researchers found that the chin likely formed as a ...

Rare fossils discovered in southern China reveals that the earliest creatures with spines — ...

But they add one caveat. Someday, they say, the researchers must teach them how to get history from the ground. The quest for fossils of human ancestors began in earnest after Charles Darwin proposed ...

A new study examining the muscular system of bonobos provides firsthand evidence that the rare great ape species may be more closely linked, anatomically, to human ancestors than common chimpanzees.