New fossils link a strange 3.4-million-year-old foot to Australopithecus deyiremeda, a species that mixed climbing skills with its own style of bipedal walking. The evidence shows that multiple early ...

Chimpanzee calls activate key human brain voice regions, revealing ancient neural links that may reshape our understanding of language origins.

Long-buried traces of Denisovan DNA have resurfaced in modern human genomes — and they may still be working for us today.

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is retracing the path of human migration. More specifically, the scientific community's best guess for the likely path of early human migration. While walking ...

Archaeologists in Britain say they've found the earliest evidence of humans making fires anywhere in the world. The discovery ...

Researchers say they’ve uncovered new evidence in present-day England that could reshape our understanding of human evolution ...

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

The findings, described in the journal Nature, push back the earliest known date for controlled fire-making by roughly ...

For decades, a neat story about human origins has floated through textbooks and documentaries: modern humans emerged in East ...

On a remote Indonesian island, fossils from a population of tiny humans are forcing scientists to redraw some of the clean ...

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

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