This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

The textbook version of human evolution has long held that Homo erectus was the pioneering species to venture beyond Africa's borders around 1.8 million years ago. However, new analysis of five skulls ...

Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to ...

Revolutionary fossil evidence from Ethiopia is challenging decades of scientific consensus about human origins. New discoveries suggest that the famous Lucy fossil, long considered a direct ancestor ...

New breakthroughs in microbial analysis could enhance disease prediction, environmental protection and our understanding of the planet’s smallest life forms.

A study has revealed that humanity’s footprint in the Amazon rainforest is reshaping the forest in ways scientists didn't ...

A study published in the journal Science on Friday revealed that a reanalysis of an ancient human skull fossil, unearthed in Hubei province and dating back more than 1 million years, may rewrite the ...

For hundreds of thousands of years, Homo sapiens evolved under the steady pressures of natural environments—savannas, forests, coasts, deserts, and river valleys that shaped everything from our ...

Scientists say they have solved the mystery of the Burtele foot, a set of 3.4 million-year-old bones found in Ethiopia in 2009. The fossils, along with others unearthed more recently, have now been ...