2024 — Could social bonds be the key to human big brains? A study of the fossil teeth of early Homo from Georgia dating back 1.77 million years reveals a prolonged childhood despite a small ...

Modern humans were already living throughout the ... of years after the Neanderthals had died out. They named her Homo floresiensis and nicknamed her the "Hobbit," after the diminutive villagers ...

with Homo sapiens -- often called anatomically modern humans -- arriving roughly 56,000 years ago, says Raven Garvey, U-M associate professor of anthropology. By about 40,000 years ago ...

The prevalence of seagrass throughout human civilisation has fostered spiritual and cultural relations with these underwater ...

Additionally, ancient humans may have ramped up their use of ochre. This naturally occurring pigment is composed of iron ...

A fossil jawbone found off Taiwan has been confirmed as Denisovan using ancient protein analysis, revealing they lived in ...

An archaeological site in Germany suggests communal hunting and complex thinking emerged earlier in human evolution than once thought.

Ancient protein analysis revealed that the oldest hominin fossil found in Taiwan belonged to a male Denisovan. Penghu 1, a ...

Human behaviour refers to the way humans act and interact. It is based on and influenced by several factors, such as genetic make-up, culture and individual values and attitudes. Two nationwide ...

NPS / Alamy Ancient human footprints, preserved in a dry lakebed at White Sands National Park in New Mexico, reveal remarkably vivid vignettes of life in the late Pleistocene: children jumping in ...