Recent advances in our understanding of human evolution challenge the way we currently name and classify our ancestors, according to new research from Monash University. The study, published in the ...

The familiar claim about humans evolving from apes leaves out an important part of the story. Fossils and DNA reveal a much ...

Evolutionary genetics challenges a recent two-person origin for the entire human population. It does not necessarily ...

Theories that aquatic foraging drove human evolution have a fraught past. But the pair argue it granted stamina that other ...

Pandemics are scourges, but one that afflicted primates millions of years ago separated the evolution of chimpanzees from ...

When studying how fossil hominids moved, researchers usually analyze the morphology of bones—which is crucial for understanding the evolution of bipedalism—focusing mainly on muscle insertion sites.

Where on earth did we humans come from?Why do humans walk on two legs, speak languages, build civilizations, and even try to ...

Something about a warm, flickering campfire draws in modern humans. Where did that uniquely human impulse come from? How did our ancestors learn to make fire? How long have they been making it?

Bone strength in seven fossils shows early Homo committed to the ground, while Australopithecus kept the arm strength of a climbing ape.

Scientists examine DNA evidence connected to early human ancestors. The video explains how researchers study the finding ...

UNLV Anthropology Professor Brian Villmoare and a team of scientists discovered fossilized teeth. UNLV Anthropology Professor Brian Villmoare and a team of international scientists discovered ...