Scientists retrieved proteins from six teeth unearthed in China that reveal a potential link between Homo erectus and later ...

For most of human evolution, the story of the brain seemed to move in one direction. It got bigger. That long rise is still ...

Since the early 20th century, people’s skulls have got rounder and their jaws have got wider, probably because of changes in health, diet and environment ...

The exact relationships between all these early human relatives are still a bit murky. It could be that H. erectus is actually just an ancestor to the Denisovans, who inherited those genes over time, ...

An analysis of ancient human artefacts finds that the container, a simple but critical tool, may have originated 500,000 ...

UCL scientists found that human skulls evolved much faster than those of other apes, reflecting the powerful forces driving our brain growth and facial flattening. By comparing 3D models of ape skulls ...

Human biology is the study of all aspects of the human organism including evolution, genetics, ecology, anatomy and physiology, development, anthropology, and nutrition, among others. A deep ...