A stunning discovery buried deep inside a cave for 1.8 million years is rewriting the story of human evolution.

The time has come to reconsider an outdated understanding of human evolution: it was ...

Humans take nearly 18 to 25 years to reach full maturity, far longer than most mammals. This slow human growth is driven by ...

It is generally accepted by archaeologists that modern humans originated in Africa and dispersed worldwide, while other ...

Rather than a single ancestral line steadily evolving toward modern humans, the evidence points to an evolutionary “bush” of ...

Just under 300,000 years from the moment Homo sapiens appeared in Africa, the species had encircled Earth, mastering desolate ...

For more than a century, human origins have been told as a story of expansion, migration, and survival. But deep in that ...

In this new series, Human, paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi reveals our incredible story across 300,000 years of human evolution and how – with the help of the latest discoveries – we’re learning ...

A new Yale-led study provides one of the most detailed and comprehensive analyses to date of genetic variation in human ...

That soft little flap of tissue dangling from the bottom of your ear has puzzled scientists for decades. Here’s what we ...

Denisovans, a mysterious human relative, left behind far more than a handful of fossils—they left genetic fingerprints in modern humans across the globe. Multiple interbreeding events with distinct ...

The human lie isn’t a flaw so much as a feature, one that evolution spent hundreds of millions of years perfecting.