The inhabitants probably hadn’t mastered fire-making, but researchers say they may have moved and maintained flames from a ...

✅ Know Your Terms: Hominin refers to all humans, plus our ancestral species who walked upright on two feet (including members ...

Lucy, the famous Australopithecus afarensis fossil, still reshapes how scientists explain human evolution nearly 50 years ...

Scientists studied the remains of a mysterious human relative called Homo naledi found deep in a South African cave and ...

Humans Are Still Evolving. Natural Selection Has Favored Genes Linked to Red Hair and Less Male-Pattern Baldness, a Study ...

The deeper we explore humanity’s past, the harder it becomes to sustain some of the most powerful political myths of the ...

The study of human origins provides a fundamental narrative for our biological and cultural evolution. By combining fossil evidence with archaeological and palaeoenvironmental data, we can trace the ...

In pursuit of knowledge, the evolution of humanity ranks with the origins of life and the universe. And yet, except when an exciting find hits the headlines, paleoanthropology and its related fields ...

The “Frozen Evolution” Myth A popular assumption says medicine, technology, and home comforts have put humanity beyond the ...

An excavated cave near Haifa, Israel, may offer archaeologists an unusually direct record from a poorly documented phase of human evolution. Researchers say the site captures one preserved episode of ...