Stone tools found in Israel are at least 1.9 million years old, showing humans left Africa earlier than scientists once believed.

Arts, entertainment, film, festivals and more events happening this week in the greater Capital Region from Thursday, Feb. 26, through Wednesday, March 4 ...

By now, it’s firmly established that modern humans and their Neanderthal relatives met and mated as our ancestors expanded ...

Could a Moroccan cave hold a crucial piece of the puzzle of human origins? Hominin fossils dating back 773,000 years discovered in the country are bringing new evidence to the debate about the last ...

Earlier migrations relied on “green corridors”—temporary windows of perfect weather that allowed people to move through ...

Cyanobacteria, as they still exist today, were the first organisms to carry out photosynthesis and release oxygen. Produced in primeval oceans about 2.5 billion years ago, this oxygen accumulated in ...