Humans are fundamentally technological creatures. We depend on the manufacture and use of tools for our survival to a degree qualitatively greater than any other species. Therefore, an understanding ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

The ape-like human ancestor Australopithecus—perhaps best known from the iconic fossil ‘Lucy’—might not have had much meat on its menu. After examining more than 3.3-million-year-old remains from ...

Some of the morphological characteristics of the human hand are different from that of other primates enabling us to grab objects with precision and use them exerting a force. Yet, how did our early ...

Read more: Click here to read the original, longer version of this story. MOVE over Homo habilis, you’re being dethroned. It seems our “handy” ancestor wasn’t the first to use stone tools. In ...

Here are 10 major findings about human ancestors and our close ancient relatives that scientists announced in 2025. A handful ...