Reconstructions of human evolution are prone to simple, overly-tidy scenarios. Our ancestors, for example, stood on two legs to look over tall grass, or began to speak because, well, they finally had ...

Before now, the earliest evidence of the use of fire by hominids was from the same cave — the Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa’s Northern Cape province — and dated to about 1 million years ago. The new ...

A new look at the diets of ancient African hominids shows a "game changer" occurred about 3.5 million years ago when some members added grasses or sedges to their menus, according to a new study led ...

Very few people today live a true hunter-gatherer lifestyle – and Paleo diets likely oversimplify what would have been on the table many millennia ago. Thiery, CC BY-NC Reconstructions of human ...

In the French cave of Arago, scientists has analyzed the dental wear of the fossils of herbivorous animals hunted by Homo heidelbergensis. It is the first time that an analytical method has allowed ...

The 3.5-million-year-old Australopithecus bahrelghazali from Chad probably ate grass, just like the modern baboons seen here do. GregRob/Flickr The nearly 2-million-year-old Paranthropus boisei was ...

Kayleigh explains why her playlist title “Hominids” is not wrong: hominids include all great apes, while hominins include humans, chimpanzees, bonobos, and their closer evolutionary branches after key ...

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Human ancestors that left Africa hundreds of thousands of years ago to see the rest of the world were no landlubbers. Stone hand axes unearthed on the Mediterranean island of Crete ...

Human ancestors living in Central Europe between 320,000 and 300,000 years ago may have used wooden spears to fend off fearsome, meat-eating rivals — saber-toothed cats. From 2011 to 2013, a team led ...