When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the ...

A recent study dramatically pushes back the date for the emergence of our species, though some researchers call for further ...

From Australopithecus to Homo sapiens, this video explores how humans evolved across millions of years of adaptation, ...

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 ...

Researchers digitally reconstructed a crushed skull and concluded our species is 1 million years old, igniting a debate over ...

Researchers used sophisticated scanning and digital reconstruction techniques to determine the original shape of the skull, ...

Stanford study finds rapid brain cell evolution boosted human cognition but lowered autism gene activity, raising ...

The significant push back in the date of origin of modern-day humans is notable. It indicates that, in the last 800,000 years ...

Decades after a skull was unearthed in China’s Hubei Province, researchers said they suspect a much earlier and more complex ...

Traces of the unknown new genome were detected in two teeth and a finger bone of a Denisovan, which was discovered in a Siberian cave. There is not much data available about the appearance of ...

A previously unknown species of Australopithecus have been discovered in Ethiopia’s Afar region, coexisting with early Homo over 2.6 million years ago—overturning long-standing assumptions about the ...

More than 20 species make a nearly identical noise to warn nearby birds of brood parasites, a behavior that bridges the ...