When a villager in northern Greece broke into a limestone wall and exposed a human skull, he did not just find a fossil, he cracked open a story scientists thought they already knew. The cranium from ...

For decades, the dominant theory in human evolution suggested that modern humans descended from a single ancestral lineage in Africa. However, groundbreaking new research from the University of ...

Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis occurred, where life emerged from non-life. Imagine a hot, watery mix of ...

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...

How did humans become human? Understanding when, where and in what environmental conditions our early ancestors lived is central to solving the puzzle of human evolution. Unfortunately, pinning down a ...

“For over a hundred years, it was hypothesized that our ancestors lived in grassland savannahs and that this major ecosystem change drove human evolution, including the origins of bipedalism and ...

In the dry, rugged badlands of Ethiopia’s Afar Region, a team of scientists has uncovered fossils that could change how you picture human evolution. These finds, dating back between 2.6 and 2.8 ...

Early humans : of whom do we speak? / Richard E. Leakey -- Homo habilis - a premature discovery : remembered by one of its founding fathers, 42 years later / Phillip V. Tobias -- Where does the genus ...

Every step you take depends on a structure most people rarely think about. The pelvis sits at the center of the body and ...

The evolution of the human species is marked by an increase in brain size. Now new research suggests that could be partly ...