Making fire on demand was a milestone in the lives of our early ancestors. But the question of when that skill first arose ...

Archaeologists in Britain say they've found the earliest evidence of humans making fires anywhere in the world. The discovery ...

Humans are far more monogamous than our primate cousins, but less so than beavers, a new study suggests. Researchers from the University of Cambridge in England analyzed the proportion of full ...

Researchers say they’ve uncovered new evidence in present-day England that could reshape our understanding of human evolution ...

Human beings have been at the center of ecological change on Earth for thousands of years. But as history shows, no species ...

Archaeologists say they have found the oldest known instance of fire setting, a key moment in human evolution.

The idea that extreme climate change could one day cause a mass extinction and end the human dominance is not as farfetched ...

Human biology evolved for a world of movement, nature, and short bursts of stress—not the constant pressure of modern life.

The findings, described in the journal Nature, push back the earliest known date for controlled fire-making by roughly ...

Extinct relatives of modern humans, like Neanderthals and Homo erectus, that lived in the Levant around 120,000 years ago, ...

“It’s the first time that remote touch has been studied in humans and it changes our conception of the perceptual world (what ...

Cats didn’t become house pets because humans needed them. They didn’t herd animals, pull carts, or guard property.