In this video, I explain the difference between Hominids and Hominins, including the timeline of when hominins split from ...

Even compared to chimpanzees, one of our closest relatives, humans' scrapes and cuts tend to stick around for more than twice ...

Researchers discovered tools dating as far back as 11,500 years. The tools could be evidence of the earliest human settlement ...

Scientists have discovered 1.5-million-year-old standardized bone tools in Tanzania, pushing back the timeline of early ...

A team of researchers has used advanced DNA sequencing to develop the most comprehensive atlas yet of genetic change through ...

Understanding human evolution often involves looking closely at our DNA. Yet obtaining ancient DNA from fossils older than 300,000 years—especially from Africa—is incredibly challenging.

The State Department under Marco Rubio seems to think little of human rights and seeks to change the term’s definition. NPR reports that the department will no longer include criticisms of poor ...

An archaeological site in Germany suggests communal hunting and complex thinking emerged earlier in human evolution than once thought.

Prof. Nithaya Chetty, Dean of the Wits Faculty of Science, commented, “This reopening represents a significant evolution in how we share the story of human origins. Visitors now have unique ...

What followed was a cascade of environmental and biological changes that may have shaped the course of human evolution. This period, called the Laschamps excursion, lasted around 2,000 years.

The genomic mechanisms that enable or limit the evolution of major changes remains one of the great questions of evolutionary biology. Living members of Mollusca represent the broadest morphological ...