Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors ...

This gene is part of a sweeping evolutionary change in early modern humans and hints at potential ancient origins of spoken language.

Denisovans were first discovered as another relation to modern humans in 2010—It turns out they might be our closest relative ...

An international team from Tel Aviv University and France’s National Centre for Scientific Research announced that a reanalysis of a child’s skull from Skhul Cave on Mount Carmel in Israel provided ...

A gene called ASDL, which helps synthesize DNA, differs between modern humans and our extinct human relatives. The findings ...

Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ancestral lineages.

Mounting evidence suggests there were key differences between modern humans and Neanderthals in the use of language. Gorodenkoff / Shutterstock New anatomical evidence indicates the Neanderthals ...

The evolution of stone tool technology and of language are likely to have been dialectically linked. Thus, the centrality of technology to human evolution is strengthened. This is not a new idea.

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.

Two of the traits that set modern humans apart from non-human primates are taller stature and a higher basal metabolic rate. Researchers have identified a genetic variant that contributed to the ...

Nonetheless, there is enough consensus to thread the story of human evolution all the way from early apes to modern humanity.