A new study of two-million-year-old tooth enamel has revealed surprising genetic diversity in Paranthropus robustus, a distant upright-walking relative of early humans. Using paleoproteomics—the ...

For nearly a century, scientists have been puzzling over fossils from a strange and robust-looking distant relative of early ...

In this one organization, where its visionary leader dreams to have 1 million beautiful souls working on the business and the brands, Dr. Nicola Middleton, is investing her best energy, passion and ...

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

Chimpanzees at a sanctuary in Zambia have been found to have developed the “seemingly pointless” behavior of dangling blades ...

In 1929, archaeologists discovered the 140,000-year-old skeleton of a young girl in Skhūl Cave. The researchers believed her ...

A new study has shown that as early as the Stone Age, people in Africa traveled long distances to procure colorful stone, the ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

Our human evolution workshops were conducted with well-resourced and historically disadvantaged schools attending. The grade ...

The human chin has been fertile ground for arguments between scientists over its purpose. As with testicles, there are half a dozen plausible ideas to explain the evolution of the human chin.

Surprising new evidence suggests northern Africa stayed wetter than once believed during a critical chapter of human evolution. Credit: Shutterstock The study questions the long-held belief that ...