The discovery of a two-million-year-old skull in South Africa is shedding important new light on microevolution in an early hominin species, as…
Australopithecus sediba had a mixture of primitive and modern anatomical features, and a unique way of walking, newly published research says. The…
While most of our early ancestors preferred to eat soft foods such as grass and sedge, Australopithecus sediba enjoyed more roughage, including…
Humans used fire a million years ago – more than 300,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to a team led by…
The discovery of two art toolkits, dating to 100,000 years ago, in a south African cave, show early humans were capable of…
The results of a major study of early hominid teeth suggest that our male ancestors tended to stick around close to where…
Among the oldest known examples of symbolic behaviour amongst humans and our close hominid relations is the use of ochre in burial…
Researchers reveal Taung Child was killed by an eagle…
Jeffrey May tries to understand the rock art of South Africa…
Oldest known beads found in Africa show modern human behaviour…