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

A collection of bones from Casablanca holds important new clues to the origins of modern humans and Neanderthals.

The jawbones and vertebrae of a hominin that lived 773,000 years ago have been found in North Africa and could represent a ...

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

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

A new investigation led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine’s Human Genome Sequencing Center, the Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain, and ...

In the mice with large-brain primate microbes, the researchers found increased expression of genes associated with energy ...

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