The time has come to reconsider an outdated understanding of human evolution: it was ...

A stunning discovery buried deep inside a cave for 1.8 million years is rewriting the story of human evolution.

Rather than a single ancestral line steadily evolving toward modern humans, the evidence points to an evolutionary “bush” of ...

The Piltdown Man fraud began in 1912 with claims that skull fragments and an ape-like jaw from Sussex represented the missing ...

A new Yale-led study provides one of the most detailed and comprehensive analyses to date of genetic variation in human ...

In this new series, Human, paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi reveals our incredible story across 300,000 years of human evolution and how – with the help of the latest discoveries – we’re learning ...

For more than a century, human origins have been told as a story of expansion, migration, and survival. But deep in that ...

Ancient encounters between humans and the mysterious Denisovans are still shaping people today. By analyzing genomes from populations across the Pacific, researchers uncovered evidence that the ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

In a recent review published in the journal Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, researchers discussed the role of climatic shifts and vegetation changes in driving the evolution within the subfamily ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Humans don’t have a defined mating season like deer or wolves. Here’s how evolution rewired ...