Like other species, we are the products of millions of years of adaptation. Now we're taking matters into our own hands.

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

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 ...

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.

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

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

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

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 ...

New insights into human evolution Interdisciplinary approach to human evolution Date: February 14, 2018 Source: Vanderbilt University Summary: The evolution of human biology should be considered ...