New research using climate models provides fascinating insights into how environmental conditions influenced the evolution ...

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

Lucy, an early human ancestor, could run upright but much slower than modern humans. New simulations show that muscle and ...

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

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

Homo erectus was able to adapt to and survive in desert-like environments at least 1.2 million years ago, according to a paper published in Communications Earth & ...