Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an ...

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

Human evolution is not a straight line but a complex branching tree shared with other great apes. This overview explains the ...

Discoveries ranging from the oldest known example of human mummification to first deliberate use of fire by people were made ...

Tiny genetic variations between humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans might not be all they were cracked up to be.

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool making, this year has given us a clearer picture of how and why humans evolved ...

New fossils link a strange 3.4-million-year-old foot to Australopithecus deyiremeda, a species that mixed climbing skills ...

Scientists studying fossils from Ethiopia’s Afar Rift have uncovered evidence of another early human species which lived ...

Researchers find Apennine brown bears evolved into a smaller, less aggressive animal after centuries of coexistence with ...

A team of international scientists, led by Dr. Karen Baab, a paleoanthropologist at the College of Graduate Studies, Glendale ...

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is retracing the path of human migration. More specifically, the scientific ...

Australopithecus is an extinct group of ape-like modern human relatives—or potentially ancestors—that walked upright and ...