Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the "other humans" that our ancestors met across Europe ...

Researchers have unveiled the face of a long-lost human ancestor, the Denisovans, using the famed Harbin skull—an ...

Our evolutionary history is now being rewritten by tiny ... he would make another discovery that would change the map of human evolution. A version of this story appears in the February 2025 ...

The record of evolution in our own genus ... leading to the greatest diaspora in human history. Variation in modern human DNA preserves geographic signals that tell us something about past ...

June 14, 2024 — Scientists have unraveled the ancestral history of one of the most ... Dishing the Dirt on Human Evolution: Why Scientific Techniques Matter in Archaeology Nov.

Meet your ancient relatives, trace the origins and evolution of our species, and explore what makes us human. Embark on a seven-million-year journey, from the first hominins to the last surviving ...

Three-million-year-old tools found in Kenya reveal early humans' ability to cut food, butcher meat, and adapt to new diets.

This characteristic, along with their diverse physical traits, underscores the complexity of human evolution ... growing complexity of our evolutionary history. Discoveries in decades have ...

Twins are pretty rare, accounting for just 3% of births in the U.S. these days. But new research shows that for primates 60 ...

The discovery of Lucy, a 3.2 million-year-old skeleton, changed our theory of human evolution forever. The discovery is celebrating its 50-year anniversary, and continues to capture human imagination.