The human hand is an evolutionary marvel. While other primates rely on their hands for locomotion and basic grasping, ours ...

Brain size and bipedalism are the most likely drivers of our species’ right-hand dominance, according to new research ...

Even tiny muscles around the ears hint at our evolutionary past. In many mammals, tiny ear muscles allow the outer ear (pinna ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. If I tried to recap all the new fossils, new methods and ...

For decades, scientists believed ancient humans avoided dense rainforests, treating them as nearly impossible environments ...

Scientists retrieved proteins from six teeth unearthed in China that reveal a potential link between Homo erectus and later ...

A stunning fossil discovery in Ethiopia shows that early Homo and a previously unknown Australopithecus species lived together around 2.6 to 2.8 million years ago. The find overturns the classic ...

An analysis of ancient human artefacts finds that the container, a simple but critical tool, may have originated 500,000 ...