A new study warns modern life may undermine key human survival traits, from fertility to cognition, as environmental ...

For decades, a neat story about human origins has floated through textbooks and documentaries: modern humans emerged in East ...

That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...

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 with broad noses and massive cheekbones, features often described as ...

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

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 ...

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

Researchers say they’ve uncovered new evidence in present-day England that could reshape our understanding of human evolution ...

Scientists discovered a new human species, Homo juluensis, in the Xujiayao site in China that lived 200,000 years ago.

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