Human evolution is often told as a tidy story of adaptation, yet some of our most familiar body parts still defy ...

Many of the ancient southern Africans, including those who lived between about 10,200 and 1,400 years ago, "fall outside the ...

On an expedition in the Awash Valley in Ethiopia, two anthropologists uncovered the bones of a 3.2 million-year-old human ...

The fossil and genetic evidence agree that modern humans originated in Africa. The most genetically diverse human populations ...

When researchers in China announced a possible new human species from a cave in Hebei province, they did more than add ...

Humans were living in rainforests roughly 150,000 years ago, some 80,000 years earlier than was previously thought—and may have been an important center for early human evolution. This is the ...

A lost chapter in human evolution has been revealed after an analysis of modern DNA found that we come from not one but two ancestral populations—ones that drifted apart and later reconnected long ...

Edward Larson, who won a Pulitzer Prize for "Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion," spoke of the "Scopes monkey trial" Tuesday at the ...

The Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) has published a valuable dataset comprising 712 ...

How far back in evolutionary history does kissing go? Through phylogenetic analysis, an international team of scientists ...

Human brains go through five distinct phases of life, each defined by its own set of characteristics, according to a new ...