From her 1930 debut as a poodle-human hybrid to a modern-day symbol of empowerment, Betty Boop has had an unusual journey to the Broadway stage. Boop-oop-a-doop!

Over 100,000 years ago, a mysterious group of ancient humans walked the lands of eastern Asia. Known as the Juluren—meaning ...

A recent study challenges conventional wisdom by emphasizing the importance of human interactions in the transition from ...

It wasn’t the size of human brains that distinguished people from apes, he theorized, but the way they were organized. He ...

A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has turned traditional thinking on its head by ...

Before hominins intentionally chipped stone to make tools, they likely used sharp rocks already shaped by natural forces.

“Our history is far richer and more complex than we imagined.” Aylwyn Scally For the last two decades, the prevailing view in human evolutionary genetics has been that Homo sapiens first appeared in ...

The new research shows “that our evolutionary origins are more complex, involving different groups that developed separately for more than a million years, then came back to form the modern human ...

"However, some of the genes from the population which contributed a minority of our genetic material, particularly those related to brain function and neural processing, may have played a crucial role ...

Two Mexican nationals have been found guilty of their roles in the deadliest human smuggling event in U.S. history. Felipe Orduna-Torres and Armando Gonzales-Ortega now face life in prison.

Languages: English. 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 ...

Beyond human ancestry, the researchers say their method could help to transform how scientists study the evolution of other species. In addition to their analysis of human evolutionary history ...