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

The Atapuerca Mountains in northern Spain are home to the Sima de los Huesos, or "Pit of Bones," which has offered one of the ...

"Our history is far richer and more complex than we imagined," said human evolutionary geneticist Aylwyn Scally.

Studies have suggested that genes under strong sexual selection tend to evolve rapidly, particularly those associated with ...

thanks to a curious mix of features Sarah Kuta Archaeologists have discovered a collection of prehistoric animal bones in Tanzania that suggests early humans figured out how to transfer tool ...

Of the 8.7 million species on Earth, why are human beings the only one that paints self-portraits, walks on the moon and ...

"Convergent evolution shows beyond doubt that ecological ... been cast as 'Africa's grasslands growing' rather than humans moving into different habitats beyond Africa," she told Newsweek.

The discovery of a human facial fragment aged over one million years represents the oldest known face in western Europe and confirms the region was inhabited by two species of human during the early ...

An Oxford academic has theorized about what might happen if humans were to go extinct and reveals which species could take ...

New research has shown that modern humans descend from not one but two separate ancient human ancestral lineages.

New Insights Into the Denisovans: New Hominin Group That Interbred With Modern Day Humans Nov. 8 ... unlike birds, the evolution of bats' wings and legs is tightly coupled, which may have ...

Humans lived under the leafy canopy of a West ... their exchanges shaped the course of our evolution and likely contributed to the success of our species,” Scerri says.