Chimps apply engineering skills to select tools with the right characteristic for hunting termites. This can teach us more ...

The ancestors of humans started making tools about 3.3 million years ago. First they made them out of stone, then they switched to bone as a raw material. Until recently, the earliest clear evidence ...

Humans stand apart from many other primates by taking more ... Experts remain intrigued by these social patterns. Yet, a near-adult fossil of early Homo from the Dmanisi site in Georgia suggests there ...

Can humans really go to Mars? Mars shares reasonable similarities with Earth. Similar tilt axis, summer and winter seasons, clouds, volcanoes, polar ice caps, much more. A Martian day (sol) is only 40 ...

New discoveries made in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania by an international team led by Ignacio de la Torre, CSIC-Spanish National Research Council, push back the archaeological record of bone-tool ...

Near the local storefronts lies the site of an excavation that unearthed stone tools from 150,000 years ago -- the earliest sign ever of humans inhabiting ... your history." Homo sapiens emerged ...

Homo heidelbergensis, shares features with both modern humans and our homo erectus ancestors. The early human species had a very large browridge, and a larger braincase and flatter face than ...

Map showing theorised migration routes of early Homo sapiens from Africa (Ted Goebel via Eurekalert) After groups of early humans went apart geographically, each subpopulation developed genetic ...

For the last two decades, the prevailing view in human evolutionary genetics has been that Homo sapiens first appeared ... from Africa that suggests early humans may have been far more diverse ...