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.

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.

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.

A two-million-year-old fossil vertebrae shows Australopithecus sediba used their upper limbs to climb like apes and their lower limbs to walk like humans.

The footprints offer hints of people's real lives 23,000 years ago. "What we see here is also activity of play, and of different ages coming together."

The beads are some of the earliest evidence of people expressing identity with clothing. "They're the tip of the iceberg for that kind of human trait."