Apart from making us look cute, the chin serves no obvious purpose, writes Viviane Richter.

Is the chin just an accident of evolution? – Joseph Clark / Getty Images Big, small and sometimes dimpled, ...

Scientists have found signs of gnawing and butcher marks on human leg, rib, other bones in a cave in the Cheddar Gorg...

In the latest in our Lab Talk series, we ask Renaud Joannes-Boyau to describe his research and wh...

We may have deciphered their DNA but much of Neanderthal life remains a fascinating mystery. New research on an eight...

A fossil of a lower jaw bone found in Ethiopia is about 400,000 years older than other fossils from the earliest know...

An experiment suggests that language evolved to pass on the skill of stone tool-making. James Mit...

Our ancestor, Homo habilis used stone tools to butcher prey. Could language have developed as a means of passing on m...

One of the charred, rolled papyrus scrolls from HerculeanumThe GuardianA riddle from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius 2...

Careful carbon dating has revealed our stone-age ancestors were surprisingly adept dentists, and ...

A tooth in this Neolithic jawbone contained tiny traces of a beeswax filling. – PLOS one A dusty old piece ...

It has long been assumed that climate change was responsible for a huge population collapse in Europe at the end of t...

DNA is writing the missing pages of Neanderthal history as well as our own. Robin McKie reports.

The two naked men are a magnet for visitors to London’s Natural History Museum. Stars of a new exhibition, the life-s...

The latest research on controversial hominid species Homo floresiensis points to a new hypothesis on its origins. The...

The largest of the 82 fragments from the Antikythera Mechanism, an ancient device that was used to calculate and pred...

The same lineage as the first humans to migrate from Africa.

SYDNEY: Australian Aborigines descend from the same lineage as the first modern humans to migrate from Africa, DNA an...