Our ancestor Homo erectus was able to survive punishingly hot and dry desert more than a million years ago, according to a ...

A long-standing question about when archaic members of the genus Homo adapted to harsh environments such as deserts and rainforests has been answered in a new research paper.

Homo erectus was able to adapt to and survive in desert-like environments at least 1.2 million years ago, according to a ...

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the "other humans" that our ancestors met across Europe ...

Archaeologists found 115,000-year-old human footprints where they shouldn't be—and they just might rewrite the history of ...

This means that at some point, ancient modern humans (Homo sapiens) interbred with Neanderthals. Now, two separate studies published in the journals Science and Nature in December have dated this ...

These are the earliest fossils found in East Asia in terms of the evolutionary process towards Homo sapiens. "The food scraps of ancient people at Hualongdong site might have lured rats and those ...

Both Neanderthals and the more advanced Homo sapiens had more or less the life ... certain members who earned salaries, perhaps in the form of extra food, that enabled them to become wealthier ...

Researchers have hypothesized that the fossils were collected for reasons beyond necessity, potentially for aesthetic enjoyment or to assign them a form of ... presence of Homo sapiens ...