New research indicates that hominins migrated into Eurasia approximately 200,000 years earlier than previously believed, ...

Today’s humans originated in Africa, about 200,000 years ago, developing unique mental (cognitive) abilities as part of their evolution. These governed the way humans interact with each other.

This Neanderthal DNA might have given us "better adaptive capabilities outside of Africa," said Chris Stringer of London's Natural History Museum to the outlet. Early humans "had evolved in Africa ...

H. erectus is a now-extinct species of early human that experts say arose some two million years ago in Africa. Walking upright, they had longer legs and shorter arms than previous hominins ...

Researchers have claimed they have found one of the world's oldest mixed poisons in the world, dating back an incredible ...

Ancient Desert Dwellers Findings published by an international research team in Nature Communications Earth & Environment report that our early human relative, Homo erectus, lived in arid terrains in ...

"We reveal how early humans -- known as hominins -- were able ... says he was able to reconstruct past landscapes to simulate the East African region at the time. "Things like extreme climate ...

More than a million years ago, long before our species Homo sapiens emerged, early humans adapted ... the arid regions of Africa and Eurasia, the study said. Modern humans, 200,000 to 300,000 ...

A study suggests long scalp hair evolved as an adaptation to heat and later gained cultural significance. Researchers ...

Africa and Asia. The researchers focused on zooarchaeological data obtained from animal remains at sites in Europe that were once inhabited by humans. "We assume that when hunting, early humans ...