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

Leibniz Institute for Primate Research and the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics have discovered ...

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 ...

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

A multidisciplinary team of researchers led by Dr. Alejandra Pascual-Garrido, Research Affiliate at the School of ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. Let’s talk about the biggest coincidence in human ...

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

"We thought they were basically all going to be fried because the entire universe turned into a vat of boiling oil." ...

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 ...

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.

Austrian researchers reveal why snow monkeys don't suffer maternal deaths during childbirth, offering insights into safer ...