Wild monkeys challenge a long-held assumption about the common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees
Wild sooty mangabey monkeys can bend the middle of their feet almost as much as chimpanzees flex their…
Ancient hunters mostly targeted female woolly mammoths, and nobody knows why
For more than a century, archaeologists have puzzled over the enormous piles of woolly mammoth bones found at…
Neanderthals and Homo sapiens shared culture for over 20,000 years, cave study suggests
Neanderthals and modern humans appear to have shared far more than the same landscape. A new study from…
The most controversial fossil site in human evolution just got even more puzzling | News
(CNN) — Humanlike fossils have emerged from the deep and twisting caverns of the Rising Star cave system…
Largest Denisovan DNA study reveals ancient genes still active in Oceanian populations
Ancient DNA inherited from Denisovans, an extinct group of human relatives, still influences the biology of people living…
Human evolution unfolded gradually across millennia, not through a sudden revolution, study argues
Modern humans spread across the globe while every other human species disappeared. Scientists agree that Homo sapiens originated…
100,000-Year-Old Bones in Ethiopia May Point to the Earliest Human Cremation
The research team surveying the research site. Credit: Ferhat Kaya A set of burned human bones unearthed in…
100,000-year-old Homo sapiens bones from Ethiopia may preserve earliest evidence of human cremation
Researchers studying Ethiopia’s Afar Rift have reported what could be the oldest known evidence of human cremation. The…
China scientists argue that harsh settings, not warm climates, drive early human creativity
Archaeologists in central China have directly challenged the long-held belief that humanity’s earliest ancestors reached their creative peak…
Humans are the only primates with a lopsided hand preference
Of all the monkeys and apes scientists have studied, no species shows a population-level hand preference. Individual primates…
Research shows Neanderthals gathered shellfish like modern humans | Northwest & National News
Specimen of the gastropod Phorcus lineatus. (ICTA-UAB via SWNS) By Talker By Stephen Beech Cavemen gathered shellfish to…
Cut marks on 1.6-million-year-old bones reveal early humans moved and processed meat in Kenya
A new study from northern Kenya adds fresh detail to how early humans found, processed, and consumed meat…