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 ...

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

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

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

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.

Earlier, in 2018, when scientists sequenced the DNA extracted from Britain’s oldest complete skeleton, a 10,000-year-old male ...

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 ...

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 ...

Modern human faces are surprisingly delicate compared with the jutting jaws and broad noses of our closest extinct cousins.

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