The ancestors of humans started making tools about 3.3 million years ago. First they made them out of stone, then they switched to bone as a raw material. Until recently, the earliest clear evidence ...

Chinese author and business leader Wang Jing predicted the emergence of a "cosmic civilization" during a speech at the ...

Remarkable new fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal that a prehistoric relative of humans was also extremely small and ...

The Chinese scientist who was imprisoned for secretly creating the world’s first genetically-engineered babies has claimed he ...

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

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 ...

President Trump signed an executive order effectively dismantling the Department of Education on Thursday. The idea isn't a ...

The launch event and signing ceremony for the English version of "Human Destiny: Institutional Governance" for international ...

Scientists discovered humans descended from two ancient populations, not one. These groups split 1.5 million years ago.

Genes from the minority population, particularly those related to brain function, may have played a crucial role in human ...

Scientists have revealed a hidden chapter in human evolution, showing our origins trace back to the interbreeding of two ...

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