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

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

The study tracks mammoth evolution over a million years using mitogenomes, showing shifts in diversity and lineage tied to ...

Our human species emerged in Africa around 300,000 years ago but scientists don't yet have a clear picture of what kind of ...

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 ...

Discoveries in Human evolution never cease to be exciting and the latest talk of the anthropology fraternity is the discovery of a new human species in China. Dating back almost 300,000 years ago, the ...