Learn how early humans evolved at a much faster rate than other apes, adapting larger brains as they developed new ways to socialize. Skull diversity across great apes (orange) and gibbons (blue).
The study, recently published in the journal Evolutionary Anthropology, studied collections of various objects found at ...
Most of us are familiar with the urge to pick up a seashell from the beach or keep a stone from a hiking trip. The object ...
As early humans spread from lush African forests into grasslands, their need for ready sources of energy led them to develop a taste for grassy plants, especially grains and the starchy plant tissue ...
Findings in human evolution. Read science articles on early humans, human and primate genetics and more. Articles and photos.
Nov. 5, 2026 A groundbreaking discovery is rewriting the story of human evolution, revealing that an ancient human species once thought to be an evolutionary dead end may have left genetic traces in ...
Early humans : of whom do we speak? / Richard E. Leakey -- Homo habilis - a premature discovery : remembered by one of its founding fathers, 42 years later / Phillip V. Tobias -- Where does the genus ...
How did humans become human? Understanding when, where and in what environmental conditions our early ancestors lived is central to solving the puzzle of human evolution. Unfortunately, pinning down a ...
The first major evolutionary change in the human diet was the incorporation of meat and marrow from large animals, which occurred by at least 2.6 million years ago. The diet of the earliest hominins ...
Compared with other primates like chimpanzees and gorillas, humans have very big brains. How did humans evolve to have such large and useful brains? A lot of attention has been given to meat-eating ...
Were early humans hunters — or hunted? For decades, researchers believed that Homo habilis — the earliest known species in our genus — marked the moment humans rose from prey to predators. They were ...
The control of fire was a critical element of early humans' survival and evolution. But how was it first used? While researchers have long proposed that early humans used fire to cook meat, some now ...