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

Researchers say they’ve uncovered new evidence in present-day England that could reshape our understanding of human evolution ...

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

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 ...

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

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

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

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe. Using advanced analysis based ...

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.

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