Surviving a supervolcano eruption around 74,000 years ago may have facilitated human dispersal from Africa, researchers report.

Modern humans reached Northwestern Europe earlier than we thought, and in a much colder environment, researchers say.

Two dental experts explain that these furthest-back molars may be a not-so-necessary leftover from early human evolution.

A changing climate, humans and fire were a deadly combination for the big animals that used to roam southern California. Listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast.

Footprints preserved in mud were made by humans thousands of years before any people were thought to be in the Americas, a team confirms.

Curly hair may have kept early humans cool while conserving water at the same time, according to new research.

To shed light on where, when, and how humans originated in Africa, researchers took a new approach using contemporary genomic evidence.

Thousands of ancient genomes have been sequenced to date. A Nobel Prize highlights tremendous opportunities for aDNA, as well as challenges related to rapid growth, equity and misinformation.

The facial structure of prehistoric skulls offers new insights into where interbreeding between humans and Neandertals took place.

New research that indicates humans may have arrived in Europe much earlier than previously thought also raises some intriguing questions.