Deep cave layers on Sulawesi preserve tools, bones, and art that may show modern humans overlapping with earlier hominins.

A collection of bones from Casablanca holds important new clues to the origins of modern humans and Neanderthals.

Bones From 773,000 Years Ago Capture Human Evolution at a Crossroads In A Nutshell Ancient African fossils dated to around 773,000 years ago offer rare clues about the last common ancestor of modern ...

This cave was probably a death trap. Nearly 800,000 years ago, carnivores dragged prey into a hollow carved into coastal rock near what is now Casablanca, Morocco. Hyenas regularly gnawed bones there.

The jawbones and vertebrae of a hominin that lived 773,000 years ago have been found in North Africa and could represent a common ancestor of Homo sapiens, Neanderthals and Denisovans ...

Learn how precisely dated fossils from Morocco reveal a population with a mix of archaic and emerging traits, helping clarify when African and Eurasian human lineages began to diverge.

Lead exposure has been thought to be a uniquely modern phenomenon. Exposure to lead by ancient humans could have given modern humans a survival advantage over other species – more specifically, ...

Many people today simply assume that our evolution has quietly ended with the development of the modern human. It's easy to think that medicine, science, and modern living have made us "perfect" ...

Denisovans, a mysterious human relative, left behind far more than a handful of fossils—they left genetic fingerprints in modern humans across the globe. Multiple interbreeding events with ...

Deep inside a cave system in Europe, a 60,000‑year‑old assemblage of human remains and artifacts has forced researchers to ...