New research reveals ancient humans in southern Africa lived in isolation for nearly 100,000 years. This led to unique ...

A foot fossil found in Ethiopia belonged to an ancient human. The finding could knock one of the most famous names in human evolution from her spot on the family tree.

How far back in evolutionary history does kissing go? Through phylogenetic analysis, an international team of scientists ...

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new study based on analyses of ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 years earlier than previously thought and in Asia not Africa, a new study said ...

A lost chapter in human evolution has been revealed after an analysis of modern DNA found that we come from not one but two ancestral populations—ones that drifted apart and later reconnected long ...

Human evolution is often told as a tidy story of adaptation, yet some of our most familiar body parts still defy ...

MAN has been around 100,000 years longer than previously thought - and the oldest modern humans loved tucking into gazelle and other game. State-of-the-art dating methods have pushed back the origins ...

The offspring of two horses will be a horse, and the offspring of two donkeys will be a donkey. But the offspring of a horse and a donkey will be a mule. And most mules are infertile, so mules are not ...

A lost chapter in human evolution has been revealed after an analysis of modern DNA found that we come from not one but two ancestral populations—ones that drifted apart and later reconnected long ...