A new documentary brings early human history to life with a "scientifically accurate" collection of hyper-real 3D models.

In pursuit of knowledge, the evolution of humanity ranks with the origins of life and the universe. And yet, except when an ...

Tensions between religion and science erupted in a hot and humid courtroom in Dayton, Tenn., 100 years ago this month.

Humans have been getting infected by ancient bacteria and viruses for at least 37,000 years. Now, for the first time, ...

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 ...

Scientists have discovered a 'hidden chapter' in human evolution - and it suggests our history is much more complex than we thought. While scientists know humans (homo sapiens) emerged in Africa ...

Humans were living in rainforests roughly 150,000 years ago, some 80,000 years earlier than was previously thought—and may have been an important center for early human evolution.. This is the ...

Evolutionary Psychology Inherited Psychology and History in Human Social Evolution Harvey Whitehouse's 'Inheritance' explains who we are and who we could be.

When Homo sapiens appeared some 300,000 years ago, at least six other human species already shared the planet. Here, in the studio of paleoartist John Gurche, are model representations of those ...

A lost chapter in human evolution has been revealed after an analysis of modern DNA found that we come from not one but two ancestral populations—ones that drifted apart and later reconnected ...

Throughout most of human history, evolution progressed slowly. Small genetic changes took thousands of years to permeate populations. Natural selection was intentional, reactive, and gradual ...