For decades, a neat story about human origins has floated through textbooks and documentaries: modern humans emerged in East ...

A new study warns modern life may undermine key human survival traits, from fertility to cognition, as environmental ...

It's tempting to think that we've reached the pinnacle of our evolution, but modern life continues to shape us just as much ...

Human biology evolved for a world of movement, nature, and short bursts of stress—not the constant pressure of modern life.

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

Human faces are famously flatter than those of other primates. Neanderthals, by contrast, had prominent, projecting midfaces ...

On a remote Indonesian island, fossils from a population of tiny humans are forcing scientists to redraw some of the clean ...

A foot fossil found in Ethiopia belonged to an ancient human. The finding could knock one of the most famous names in human evolution from her spot on the family tree.

Many of the ancient southern Africans, including those who lived between about 10,200 and 1,400 years ago, "fall outside the ...

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new ...

New research reveals ancient humans in southern Africa lived in isolation for nearly 100,000 years. This led to unique ...

An experimental study of modern chimpanzees has documented patterns of behavior that seemingly mirror those of our prehistoric human ancestors, casting light on how our predecessors may have utilized ...