The very first humans millions of years ago may have been inventors, according to a discovery in northwest Kenya. Researchers ...

“Our work highlights how evolutionary adaptations to diet and disease may have influenced primate biology, including humans,” ...

Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis ...

Anthropologist Christopher Bae has recently suggested we add two new species of ancient human to our family tree. The plans ...

We now have only the second high-quality genome from an ancient Denisovan human, which reveals there were more populations of ...

Researchers uncovered a 2.75–2.44 million-year-old site in Kenya showing that early humans maintained stone tool traditions ...

Scientists discover the oldest human face in Western Europe, dating back more than a million years, in a cave in northern ...

Before 2.75 million years ago, the Namorotukunan area featured lush wetlands with abundant palms and sedges, with mean annual precipitation reaching approximately 855 millimeters per year. However, ...

Summary: A global study of vertebrates reveals that body temperature is the key driver behind brain size evolution.

At the world’s largest tech showcase one truth emerged that innovation means little without the people it serves ...

New findings reveal the geological age, context, and anatomy of hominin fossils discovered at the Ledi-Geraru Research Project in Ethiopia. Although scientists have uncovered much of the story of ...

Humans stand out among mammals for our ability to run long distances without falling apart. That ability links back to early ...