There is increasing evidence to suggest that symbolic and abstract thought may have deep evolutionary roots and was not exclusive to modern humans.

The groups maintained that human connection is crucial for early childhood development, especially in humanitarian settings, as it provides emotional and psychological support, helping children fe ...

Hominins are believed to have started leaving Africa around 2 million years ago, spreading out into Eurasia. The earliest indisputable fossil evidence of hominins outside of Africa comes from ...

The study, published in Nature Communications Earth & Environment, finds it was earlier than originally thought. "We reveal how early humans – known as hominins – were able to thrive under harsh ...

New research suggests modern humans aren’t the only hominin species capable of “ecological flexibility” Sarah Kuta Daily Correspondent Our early human ancestors might have been more ...

The tools, consisting of sharpened stone flakes, are believed to have been made by early hominins named Paranthropus, who are considered to be the first pre-human species to walk upright. This region ...

More than a million years ago, long before our species Homo sapiens emerged, early humans adapted to desert-like conditions. Kaplan was a co-author of the findings published Thursday in the ...

It’s similar to how early modern cities often developed at river confluences. These ancient humans were using the same logic, just a million years earlier. The evidence they left behind is ...

africanus with those of other extinct mammals from Sterkfontein and modern African mammals, the early humans appear to have had a variable diet, but not one rich in mammalian meat. The findings ...

Ancient Desert Dwellers Findings published by an international research team in Nature Communications Earth & Environment report that our early human relative, Homo erectus, lived in arid terrains in ...

"We reveal how early humans -- known as hominins -- were able to thrive under harsh conditions," says lead author Dr. Julio Mercader Florín, PhD, a professor in both the Faculty of Arts and the ...

erectus’ geographic range. There has been significant debate over when early hominins acquired the adaptability to survive in extreme environments, such as deserts or rainforests. Previous ...