The discovery of 1.5-million-year-old bone tools in Tanzania suggests early human ancestors had advanced cognitive abilities ...

Lawmakers and campaigners in the United Kingdom are pushing for an end to the display of human remains in museums and the ...

A group of scientists have discovered the jaw bone of an ancient human species that lived about 1.4 million years ago. The ...

For decades, scientists have believed that meat-eating drove human evolution, particularly our enlarged brains. This carnivorous origin story has become so entrenched that few questioned it: our ...

The parliamentary group for Afrikan Reparations branded displays of human remains 'unethical' and said mummies had been ...

Did early humans have rules for how words could be strung together? What impact did this have on their brains and behaviour?

Writing lets us trace language back about 5,000 years, but the spoken words is over a million years old. Psychology, biology ...

Until now, at least 14 different species have been assigned to the genus Homo since it emerged in Ethiopia some 2.8 million ...

Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels ...

Sultana Begum, the great-granddaughter-in-law of the last Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar, lives in a Kolkata slum in stark ...