To reconstruct the environmental conditions during the time of Homo erectus, the research team used advanced modeling ...

Early modern humans were taller and less stocky than Neanderthals, perhaps more suited to endurance running than short bursts of speed. The Homo sapiens man's body proportions were similar to those of ...

Earth's climate has changed throughout history for numerous reasons, but modern climate change is driven by human behavior.

Early humans adapted to harsh conditions over a million years ago, researchers find - Our early human ancestors had a much ...

Ancient artifacts such as stone tools and fossils, including ancient human skulls and teeth, provide crucial information for understanding the origins of modern humans. The archaeological record ...

This basin helped support her internal organs and entire upper body as she moved ... bones are long and sturdy relative to those of modern humans. Laetoli Footprints: prints Whoever left these ...

The first modern humans lived about 200,000 years ago in Africa south of the Zambezi River, researchers reported today (October 28) in Nature. The conclusion, reached through analyses of mitochondrial ...

The reasons for the demise of the Neanderthals some 30 thousand years ago, only a few millennia after the first appearance of modern humans in Europe, remain controversial, and are a focus of ...

"By leveraging the surviving Denisovan segments in modern human genomes scientists have ... common in Tibetan populations ...