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.

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

In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little Foot,” fossil an exquisitely preserved hominin found in South Africa’s ...

The analysis of dental remains from Dmanisi in the Republic of Georgia has important implications regarding the balance and ...

Learn how precisely dated fossils from Morocco reveal a population with a mix of archaic and emerging traits, helping clarify ...

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