More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

After decades of excavation and debate, a new analysis argues that Little Foot — one of the most complete hominin fossils ...

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

For decades, a neat story about human origins has floated through textbooks and documentaries: modern humans emerged in East ...

A team of international scientists, led by Dr. Karen Baab, a paleoanthropologist at the College of Graduate Studies, Glendale ...

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

Australian-led study suggests iconic South African skeleton differs from known Australopithecus species, media reports - ...

Immense progress has been made over many years of archaeology and study into human evolution, and exciting new information has been uncovered via archaeology.

Newfound fossils in modern-day Ethiopia suggest that the mysterious foot belonged to a recently named species, Australopithecus deyiremeda. The finding could alter the story of human evolution ...

Modern humans did not evolve from monkeys or any other animal that lives today. Humans continue to evolve but the traits we pass down aren't always for the species' betterment. "Survival of the ...

Humans likely harvested their first flames from wildfire. When they learned to make it themselves, it changed everything.

A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution reports that Italian bears living in areas with many villages evolved and ...