Scientists studied the remains of a mysterious human relative called Homo naledi found deep in a South African cave and ...

(Volodymyr Yakimchuk/Creatas Video+/Getty Images Plus) A seismic shift in the selection pressures acting on humans may have ...

Over 100,000 years ago, a mysterious group of ancient humans walked the lands of eastern Asia. Known as the Juluren—meaning “large head people”—they’ve recently been introduced to science under the ...

What took so long for humans to appear on Earth? The Earth is 4.6 billion years old, and life began about 4 billion years ago, yet humans—the only intelligent, technological species we know of in 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 ...

The 2-Million-Year Jump: The primary transition to modern human body proportions was a sudden evolutionary leap 2 to 2.5 million years ago, driven by Homo erectus/ergaster and Homo rudolfensis, rather ...

The study of the human past matters for an array of positive and negative reasons. A new book from historian Stefanos Geroulanos promises to explore those reasons — but also to question the worth of ...

In pursuit of knowledge, the evolution of humanity ranks with the origins of life and the universe. And yet, except when an exciting find hits the headlines, palaeoanthropology and its related fields ...

The museum’s groundbreaking Hall of Human Origins centers around the adaptations that set early humans apart Jack Tamisiea What does it mean to be human? This question, deceptively simple and imbued ...

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