Our species, Homo sapiens, has been evolving for more than 300,000 years, but the story of human origins starts much earlier.

A large comparative study of primate teeth shows that grooves once linked to ancient human tooth-picking can form naturally, while some common modern dental problems appear uniquely human.

Do you like drinking milk or chatting with your friends? Well, you can enjoy those because of the evolution happened over the ...

The curious minds at What If explore what would happen if dinosaurs never went extinct and changed human evolution, imagining ...

Long before humans became master hunters, our ancestors were already thriving by making the most of what nature left behind. New research suggests that scavenging animal carcasses wasn’t a desperate ...

Ancient tools from central China are flipping the script, revealing early humans were far more innovative than history once gave them credit for.

A hand stencil on the wall of a cave in Indonesia has become the oldest known rock art in the world, exceeding the ...

Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in Africa’s fossil record of human origins.

Those who use their bodies to survey the boundaries.

Early, ancestral members of the human lineage may have left Africa earlier than widely thought, a new study of fossil teeth suggests. Scientists investigated fossils excavated from the medieval ...

A 5,500-year-old skeleton from Colombia has revealed the oldest known genome of the bacterium linked to syphilis and related ...

A shriek broke the dawn on the savannah, followed by more screeches and the rustle of branches: The wild Fongoli chimps were ...