By Michael Balter Most child health experts agree that a minimum of 6 months of breastfeeding is essential for the welfare of growing babies, alt...

By Heather Pringle Archaeologists have long debated when early humans began hurling stone-tipped spears and darts at large prey. By throwing a spear...

By: Tanya Lewis, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 05/15/2013 01:06 PM EDT on LiveScience The oldest ape and Old World monkey fossils have been ...

By Elizabeth Norton If you've ever cringed when your parents said "groovy," you'll know that spoken language can have a brief shelf life. But freq...

By: Charles Q. Choi, OurAmazingPlanet Contributor Published: 04/29/2013 03:04 PM EDT on LiveScience A supervolcanic eruption thought to have nearl...

By: Charles Choi, LiveScience Contributor Published: 04/16/2013 07:05 PM EDT on LiveScience The brain of the extinct "hobbit" was bigger...

By: Charles Choi, LiveScience Contributor Published: 04/11/2013 02:07 PM EDT on LiveScience The most complete investigation of the anatomy of what...

By: Charles Choi, LiveScience Contributor Published: 04/01/2013 08:45 AM EDT on LiveScience A trove of Neanderthal fossils including bones of chi...

By: Tia Ghose, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 03/28/2013 09:53 AM EDT on LiveScience Brain organization, not overall size, may be the key ev...

By: Tia Ghose, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 03/20/2013 11:23 AM EDT on LiveScience "Turkana Boy," an exquisitely preserved 1.5-mi...

By: Tia Ghose, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 03/19/2013 08:07 PM EDT on LiveScience Fossil footprints could provide a skewed view of how anc...

BERLIN — Researchers in Germany said Tuesday they have completed the first high-quality sequencing of a Neanderthal genome and are making it fre...

By: Tanya Lewis, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 03/18/2013 05:06 PM EDT on LiveScience Inbreeding may have been a common practice among earl...

By: Tia Ghose, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 03/12/2013 08:25 PM EDT on LiveScience Neanderthals' keen vision may explain why they couldn't ...

By Katherine Harmon | December 31, 2012 A new study suggests that we might be thinking about tree climbing in our recent ancestors all wrong. T...

By: Owen Jarus, LiveScience Contributor Published: 12/31/2012 02:15 PM EST on LiveScience "Peking Man," a human ancestor who lived in Chi...

By: Megan Gannon, News Editor Published: 12/10/2012 09:35 AM EST on LiveScience A bundle of recent genetic studies have suggested modern humans ha...

NEW YORK -- Scientists say they've found evidence that stone tips for spears were made much earlier than thought, maybe even created by an earlier anc...

By: Charles Choi, LiveScience Contributor Published: 08/30/2012 02:05 PM EDT on LiveScience The genome of a recently discovered branch of extinct...

By Katherine Harmon There has been fierce debate recently over whether the original “caveman” diet was one of heaps of bloody meat or fields of g...

By Rob Dunn Paleolithic diets have become all the rage, but they are getting our ancestral diet all wrong. Right now, one half of all Americans ar...

By: Charles Q. Choi, LiveScience Contributor Published: 07/18/2012 05:04 PM EDT on LiveScience The unusually powerful right arms of Neanderthals...

By Ann Gibbons Talk about a high-fiber diet: the newest member of the human family, Australopithecus sediba, ate enough bark, leaves, and fruit that...

How old is animal life on Earth? Bizarre fossils unearthed recently in Namibia suggest the earliest animals were around 100 million to 150 million yea...