Understanding Climate's Change on Human Evolution suggests a new scientific program for international climate and human evolution studies that involve an exploration initiative to locate new fossil ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Newly discovered fossils in Kenya reveal that Paranthropus boisei, once seen as a simple plant-eater, had surprisingly human-like ...

A site dredged from the seabed in Indonesia is bringing Homo erectus back into focus, revealing how these early humans lived ...

Understanding the evolution of our ancestral hominins and their place in the family tree drives paleoanthropologists. By analyzing fossilized remains, scientists can reconstruct life millions of years ...

Changes in Earth's orbit have helped pace climatic change for millennia. Scientists are now trying to understand whether - and how - these changes remodeled the landscapes our ancient ancestors ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The ancestors of humans started making tools about 3.3 million years ago. First they made them out of stone, then they switched to ...

Introduction. Human interactions with ecosystems ; Demonstrating causality for human-environmental interactions ; Committee charge and scope of this study -- Existing understanding of the ...

Little Foot, a 3.67 million-year-old human ancestor, is getting a digital facial reconstruction after her skull was crushed ...

Rising seas erased this prehistoric human world from history—until ocean dredgers recently discovered it.