Malaria may have shaped early human life across Africa far earlier than once thought, steering where people could safely live ...

For most of the 20th century, the model of human origins was a tree: with the trunk dividing into branches, and then twigs.

Scientists retrieved proteins from six teeth unearthed in China that reveal a potential link between Homo erectus and later human species, including Homo sapiens.

Some extinct human ancestors and modern-day apes appear to share wrist traits that raise the question of whether our last ...

An international team of paleontologists unearthed fossilized bones of a new species of lovebird from three caves in the South African UNESCO World Heritage site known as the Cradle of Humankind. Life ...