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.

Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival ...

Human beings have been at the center of ecological change on Earth for thousands of years. But as history shows, no species ...

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

Learn how genomes from 28 ancient individuals show that Homo sapiens lived in southern Africa in near isolation for hundreds ...

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 ...

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

The fossil and genetic evidence agree that modern humans originated in Africa. The most genetically diverse human populations ...

Zayed National Museum – the centrepiece of the Saadiyat Cultural District – opened its doors to the public, offering an ...

Regarded as the father of medicine, Hippocrates was also the first food historian, exploring human nutrition and linking wisdom to science.

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