The textbook version of human evolution has long held that Homo erectus was the pioneering species to venture beyond Africa's borders around 1.8 million years ago. However, new analysis of five skulls ...

Vervet monkeys living on the Caribbean islands of St. Kitts and Nevis are famous for their fondness for alcohol. Their taste ...

Over a century ago, anthropologist Raymond Dart chipped an ancient skull out of some rock from an ancient quarry — and revealed the face of an ancient human relative.

Human evolution is not a straight line but a complex branching tree shared with other great apes. This overview explains the distinction between hominids and hominins and traces the evolutionary ...

A 1.6-million-year-old Ethiopian skull blends ancestor and descendant features, rewriting the origin story of Homo erectus.

After decades of excavation and debate, a new analysis argues that Little Foot — one of the most complete hominin fossils ...

This is the centennial year for the Scopes “monkey trial” in Dayton, Tennessee, 1925’s “trial of the century”. In the dock ...

Monkey Day lands on December 14, and while it may sound like a quirky holiday, it highlights something extraordinary: primates are far more impressive, skilled, and complex than most people realize.

The presence of pyrite was an unmistakable sign. Striking flint against pyrite nodules creates sparks, and which can be used to start fire. This pushes back the earliest known controlled use of fire ...

Accumulating research and emerging experiences suggest we're witnessing fundamental changes in human psychological development that extend far beyond simple technology adoption.

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 that humans and a handful of musical birds held a near-exclusive claim to one of the most culturally defining abilities on Earth: the ability to move in time with a ...