A stunning discovery buried deep inside a cave for 1.8 million years is rewriting the story of human evolution.

The time has come to reconsider an outdated understanding of human evolution: it was ...

It is generally accepted by archaeologists that modern humans originated in Africa and dispersed worldwide, while other ...

Rather than a single ancestral line steadily evolving toward modern humans, the evidence points to an evolutionary “bush” of ...

For more than a century, human origins have been told as a story of expansion, migration, and survival. But deep in that ...

A new Yale-led study provides one of the most detailed and comprehensive analyses to date of genetic variation in human ...

In this new series, Human, paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi reveals our incredible story across 300,000 years of human evolution and how – with the help of the latest discoveries – we’re learning ...

Many scientists point to cultural evolution, the process by which knowledge, customs and technology spread over time. But ...

Ancient encounters between humans and the mysterious Denisovans are still shaping people today. By analyzing genomes from populations across the Pacific, researchers uncovered evidence that the ...

In a recent review published in the journal Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, researchers discussed the role of climatic shifts and vegetation changes in driving the evolution within the subfamily ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Humans don’t have a defined mating season like deer or wolves. Here’s how evolution rewired ...