All life everywhere is shaped by the subtle touch of evolution, but given our mastery over our environment, has human ...

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.

Human faces are famously flatter than those of other primates. Neanderthals, by contrast, had prominent, projecting midfaces ...

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long ...

Human biology evolved for a world of movement, nature, and short bursts of stress—not the constant pressure of modern life.

Many of the ancient southern Africans, including those who lived between about 10,200 and 1,400 years ago, "fall outside the ...

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

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

An experimental study of modern chimpanzees has documented patterns of behavior that seemingly mirror those of our prehistoric human ancestors, casting light on how our predecessors may have utilized ...

When did something like us first appear on the planet? It turns out there's remarkably little agreement on this question. Fossils and DNA suggest people looking like us, anatomically modern Homo ...

John Gowlett receives funding from PAST Africa and Wenner-Gren Foundation, and his work has previously been supported by The Leverhulme Trust. He is associated with a new series of podcasts on human ...

Ancient Mars once teemed with flowing rivers, forming vast drainage systems. A new study has mapped these large basins, ...