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 ...

The research challenges the long-held belief that only Homo sapiens had the capacity to thrive in extreme environments.

A million years ago, a species known as Homo erectus most likely survived in an arid desert with no trees. By Carl Zimmer ...

A study of tool use among chimps, our closest living relatives, has cast light on the human evolutionary journey.

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

Some researchers hypothesize that the incorporation of animal-based foods in early hominin diets led to increased brain size, ...

The capacity might explain how Homo erectus conquered Eurasia, but deepens the mystery about what took our own species so ...

The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage, a potential catalyst for advances ...

An early human ancestor of our species successfully navigated harsher and more arid terrains for longer in Eastern Africa ...

One specific change they analyzed is the translocation of human PAR2 (pseudoautosomal region 2), a swapping of the tips of ...

A new study outlines the ways by which city life may be shaping the evolution of urban coyotes, the highly adaptable carnivores spotted in alleyways from Berkeley, Calif., to the Bronx, in New York.

The authors present new expression analysis software (TEKRABber) to help analyze expression correlations between transposable elements (TEs) and KRAB zinc finger (KRAB-ZNF) genes in experimentaly ...