Tiny genetic variations between humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans might not be all they were cracked up to be.

Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an ...

Sticking with a long-term life partner to rear children has long been considered a dominant mating pattern for our species, ...

Scientists discovered a new human species, Homo juluensis, in the Xujiayao site in China that lived 200,000 years ago.

If you ask some people, they’ll tell you humans are wired to be monogamous — it’s in our very blood. But one look at the ...

Genetic sharing among evolutionary neighbors all happens through hybrids: the offspring produced when individuals from two species mate. Famous hybrids include offspring between polar and grizzly ...