Beyond mere biological evolution, the story of our species is filled with cultural and technological revolutions that have ...

A stunning discovery of fossilized footprints pressed into soft mud preserved the unexpected and extraordinary moment, ...

Were you to time travel to Asia in the late Middle and early Late Pleistocene periods, some 300,000 to 50,000 years ago, you ...

A University of Hawaiʻi researcher says he may have found a new human species called Homo juluensis, which includes ...

Scientists make their case for classifying an extinct group that lived in northern China until 120,000 years ago as a ...

Muddy footprints found beside Lake Turkana, Kenya reveal two ancient hominin species were once neighbors 1.5 million years ...

About 1.5 million years ago, individuals of two different species in the human evolutionary lineage trudged on a muddy ...

In pursuit of knowledge, the evolution of humanity ranks with the origins of life and the universe. And yet, except when an ...

Recent research challenges the theory that long childhood in humans is due to large brain sizes. Instead, analysis of early ...

Recent work has also revealed that Homo sapiens interbred with three separate Denisovan populations. As a consequence, all ...