A trove of rare 300,000-year-old wooden tools unearthed in south-west China reveals that early humans in the region may have relied heavily on underground plants like roots and tubers for ...

Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra. This ...

New research reveals why early human attempts to leave Africa repeatedly failed—until one group succeeded spectacularly ...

Early humans tried to leave Africa many times, but only one group succeeded because they were better at surviving in ...

A new study from SapienCE reveals that early modern humans at Blombos Cave in South Africa used ochre as a specialized tool ...

Ecological flexibility, not tools or genes, explains why only one migration out of Africa succeeded around 50,000 years ago.

Early humans survived in a range of extreme environments before ... The scientists assembled a database of archaeological sites showing human presence across Africa from 120,000 to 14,000 ...

Other groups of early human ancestors also left Africa and established long-term settlements elsewhere, including those that evolved into Europe’s Neanderthals, he said.

Our species first evolved in Africa around 300,000 years ago. While prior fossil finds show some groups made early forays outside the continent, lasting human settlements in other parts of the ...

Early humans survived in a range of extreme environments before ... The scientists assembled a database of archaeological sites showing human presence across Africa from 120,000 to 14,000 ...

Early humans survived in a range of extreme environments before ... The scientists assembled a database of archaeological sites showing human presence across Africa from 120,000 to 14,000 ...

Early humans survived in a range of extreme environments before ... The scientists assembled a database of archaeological sites showing human presence across Africa from 120,000 to 14,000 ...