It’s been almost 2 million years since the first archaic humans ventured out of their African homeland. Exactly whose idea it ...

A remarkable discovery in northern Kenya has provided the first direct evidence that two early human relatives, Homo erectus ...

A recent discovery in Kenya’s Koobi Fora region has given scientists a rare glimpse into the distant past, raising new ...

But it's not until Homo erectus came on the scene about 1.9 million years ... You can learn more about our origins and evolution in the Museum's Human Evolution gallery and this feature about the ...

Objects discovered in Tanzania and dated to 1.5 million years ago help to rewrite human ancestors’ use of carved bone ...

These are humanity’s first knives, says the 48-year-old CSIC researcher. Until now, the oldest known bone tools were from ...

A cache of 1.5 million-year-old bone tools uncovered in Tanzania suggest ancient human ancestors were capable of critical ...

Our Human Evolution gallery explores the origins of Homo sapiens, tracing our lineage since it split from that of our closest living relatives, the chimpanzee and the bonobo. Gallery developer Jenny ...

The oldest collection of mass-produced prehistoric bone tools reveal that human ancestors were likely capable of more advanced abstract reasoning one million years earlier than thought, finds a new ...

An assemblage of tools found in Tanzania that was fashioned about 1.5 million years ago from the limb bones of elephants and ...

The archaeological record also includes cultural advancements and the evolution ... suggested that Homo erectus and the hominin species Paranthropus boisei lived in the region. Human ancestors ...