Gene alteration likely enhanced body heat generation among early humans who moved to colder climates, researchers say

Chemicals in the tooth enamel of Australopithecus suggest the early human ancestors ate very little meat, dining on vegetation instead.

Study from University of Oxford looks into evolutionary origins of kissing and its role in relations between species

A partial skeleton dating back more than two million years is the most complete yet of Homo habilis, one of the earliest known species in our genus

Nature Communications - Stone tools illustrate behavioural complexities in Middle Pleistocene hominin populations. Here, the authors present small dimensional flakes and hafted tools from Xigou,...