10,000-Year-Old Genomes Rewrite Human Evolution ...

A new study warns modern life may undermine key human survival traits, from fertility to cognition, as environmental ...

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

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

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

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

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.

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

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

Earlier, in 2018, when scientists sequenced the DNA extracted from Britain’s oldest complete skeleton, a 10,000-year-old male ...

Modern human faces are surprisingly delicate compared with the jutting jaws and broad noses of our closest extinct cousins.

Mysterious red lights falling from space, initially thought to be alien signals, have been identified by scientists as red ...