This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to ...

Tiny genetic variations between humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans might not be all they were cracked up to be.

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

The textbook version of human evolution has long held that Homo erectus was the pioneering species to venture beyond Africa's borders around 1.8 million years ago. However, new analysis of five skulls ...

Ella Al-Shamahi explores the complexities of our past by meeting the fascinating human species we once shared the planet with ...

In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little ...

Modern humans did not evolve from monkeys or any other animal that lives today. Humans continue to evolve but the traits we pass down aren't always for the species' betterment. "Survival of the ...

A disbelief in human evolution was associated with higher levels of prejudice, racist attitudes and support of discriminatory behavior against Blacks, immigrants and the LGBTQ community in the U.S., ...

Researchers find Apennine brown bears evolved into a smaller, less aggressive animal after centuries of coexistence with ...