An international team of researchers has presented this week the analysis of a fossil discovered in Bulgaria that could ...

Discover the latest news, features and articles about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ...

Human evolution spans millions of years, from early primates to modern Homo sapiens. Fossil evidence, genetic data, and climate shifts help explain how different human species emerged, migrated, and ...

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors to modern humans, researchers now see a tangled, branching tree with ...

In the deserts of Ethiopia, scientists uncovered fossils showing that early members of our genus Homo lived side by side with a newly identified species of Australopithecus nearly three million years ...

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how human-specific DNA changes shaped human evolution. It's just over a decade since ...

The evolution of the human species is marked by an increase in brain size. Now new research suggests that could be partly dependent on increases in prenatal estrogen—revealed by looking at the length ...