Humans are actually limited in how much protein they can metabolize for energy, meaning early humans really needed a more ...

Monte Verde, long treated as one of the earliest human camps in South America, is suddenly at the center of a sharp ...

A fossil ape discovered in northern Egypt is reshaping the story of human evolution. The species, Masripithecus, lived about 17 to 18 million years ago and may sit very close to the ancestor of all ...

For decades, Paranthropus robustus has intrigued scientists as a powerful, big-jawed cousin of early humans. Now, thanks to ancient protein analysis, researchers have cracked open new secrets hidden ...

An archaeologist just overturned a major piece of evidence that humans reached South America before most of North America.

Genetic tweaks changed how the hip bones of early humans developed, which allowed them to start walking upright on two legs, according to new research. Photo by Adobe Stock/HealthDay News Two small ...

It’s unclear how a new date for the site might affect the human story. Since Monte Verde, researchers have uncovered sites in ...

Two small changes in human DNA may have played a big role in helping our ancestors walk upright, researchers say. The study, recently published in the journal Nature, found that these tweaks changed ...