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Long before humans became master hunters, our ancestors were already thriving by making the most of what nature left behind. New research suggests that scavenging animal carcasses wasn’t a desperate ...

A new study challenges long-standing ideas about how early humans survived. Far from being mere hunters, our ancestors may have thrived by scavenging the remains of dead animals. This overlooked ...

When people imagine the earliest human tools, they usually picture weapons. Stone handaxes, sharpened spears and heavy clubs ...

A landmark study of nearly 16,000 ancient genomes from West Eurasia has found that natural selection acted on 479 gene variants over the past 10,000 years, far more than previously known. The findings ...

South Africa has one of the world’s richest fossil records of hominins (humans and their fossil ancestors). But many misconceptions still exist regarding human evolution, and school textbooks contain ...