For most of human evolution, the story of the brain seemed to move in one direction. It got bigger. That long rise is still ...

For most of human evolution, the story of the brain seemed to move in one direction: up. Over millions of years, our ...

HUBEI, China (WKRC/CNN Newsource) - The reexamination of a prehistoric skull led researchers to believe that humanity may have began 400,000 years earlier than previously thought. A badly crushed ...

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 ...

Scientists in China discovered that ancient humans were making surprisingly advanced stone tools during a harsh ice age ...

The Middle Pleistocene was a turning point for human adaptation in East Asia, as shifting climates reshaped landscapes and demanded new survival strategies. By examining sediments, pollen, ...

“The calcite crystals inside the bone acted like a natural clock, allowing us to refine the age of the site,” Zhao explained. Previously, researchers thought that the tools found in Lingjing were ...

In central China, scientists have spent over a decade excavating and studying an archaeological site where ancient humans ...