Piecing together the story of Europe’s earliest settlers is a challenge, largely because relevant human fossils are scarce.

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe.

Archaeologists have discovered fossilized facial bones of an ancient human race which lived roughly 1.4 million years ago, ...

Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels ...

The animate-inanimate category distinction is one of the general organizing principles in the primate high-level visual cortex. Much less is known about the visual cortical representations of animacy ...

Using an animal model of multiple sclerosis (MS), researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have created a ...

Trump signed a new executive order this month to decrease reliance on foreign lumber. The order could result in the felling ...

New research suggests that humans inhabited the rainforests of West Africa roughly 150,000 years ago, providing new insights ...

For millions of years, early human ancestors relied on stone tools to shape their world. The discovery of a collection of 27 ...

A remarkable discovery in northern Kenya has provided the first direct evidence that two early human relatives, Homo erectus ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Early humans were regularly using animal bones to make cutting tools 1.5 million years ago. A newly discovered cache of 27 carved and sharpened bones from elephants and hippos ...

Using sex to manage social tension dates back over six million years to humans’ common ape ancestor, according to a new study. Researchers from our Department of Psychology compared sexual behaviour ...