Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors ...

If you have spent time with an infant, you might recognize the scene: A child is wailing, inconsolable, and you, the parent, have to go to the bathroom. Or eat. Or attend to a pot that’s boiling over.

New Ethiopian fossils show early Homo and Australopithecus lived together, revealing a complex human evolution story.

Newly discovered teeth from Ethiopia reveal that early humans coexisted with a mysterious cousin species, reshaping our ...

An ancient skull has finally shown us what the Denisovans looked like. Now it turns out they, not Neanderthals, might be our ...

Neanderthals still shared the Earth with our ancestors. Recent discoveries are challenging our linear view of human evolution. Advances in genetics reveal that our ...

Once dismissed as “junk” DNA, ancient viruses embedded in the human genome play a key role in early human development, ...

Denisovans were first discovered as another relation to modern humans in 2010—It turns out they might be our closest relative ...

Researchers from France, China, the UK, and Greece revealed that the Petralona cranium is at least 286,000 years old, placing it firmly in the Middle Pleistocene era. A new scientific study has shed ...

The pelvis is often called the keystone of upright locomotion. More than any other part of our lower body, it has been ...

Caleb Sharf, director of Astrobiology at Columbia, has predicted that we may well witness a "first new origin event" in the process of evolution.