Genetic tweaks allowed early humans to stand, balance and walk on two legs instead of moving on all fours like other primates ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

Imagine early humans meticulously crafting stone tools for nearly 300,000 years, all while contending with recurring ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 years earlier than thought and in Asia, not Africa, a study found. The ...

A lost chapter in human evolution has been revealed after an analysis of modern DNA found that we come from not one but two ancestral populations—ones that drifted apart and later reconnected long ...

“Our work highlights how evolutionary adaptations to diet and disease may have influenced primate biology, including humans,” ...

An Unseen Threat Picture this: you're walking down a dimly lit street at night, and every shadow seems to move. Your heart rate quickens, your muscles tense, and suddenly you're scanning every corner ...

He lived hundreds of thousands of years ago, eking out an existence in what is today central China. Sporting a squat neck and a big brain, he likely wielded tools made of stone and hunted or scavenged ...

In this 4.4-million-year-old skeleton, scientists may have found the missing step between climbing and walking.

Humans were living in rainforests roughly 150,000 years ago, some 80,000 years earlier than was previously thought—and may have been an important center for early human evolution. This is the ...

Researchers have virtually reconstructed a crushed and distorted 1 million-year-old human skull discovered in China. The newly restored cranium may have belonged to a relative of the mysterious ...

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