A new analysis argues that this daily work of processing and cooking food helped reshape human bodies and social life. It ...

Ten fossil teeth belong to new Australopithecus species Found in Afar Region, they are 2.65 million years old This species coexisted with an early Homo species Fossils underscore complex nature of ...

Humans have lived with fire for over a million years. Scientists now say burn injuries may have influenced human evolution and healing.

Humans' exposure to high temperature burn injuries may have played an important role in our evolutionary development, shaping ...

Human evolution has long been tied to growing brain size, and new research suggests prenatal hormones may have played a surprising role. By studying the relative lengths of index and ring fingers — a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A reconstruction of the crushed skull labelled Yunxian 2, which has features that are closer to species thought to have existed ...

New research suggests fire was key to making our bodies successful in evolution – but not in the ways we previously thought.

Human evolution spans millions of years, from early primates to modern Homo sapiens. Fossil evidence, genetic data, and climate shifts help explain how different human species emerged, migrated, and ...

The evolution of the human species is marked by an increase in brain size. Now new research suggests that could be partly ...