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

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

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 ...

Biological evolution works slowly. Genetic changes that truly adapt humans to new environments generally require many ...

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.

What muscles feet have, how your brain controls them, and how humans evolved all play a part in why people can’t easily move ...

A major new study has revealed that a group of people in southern Africa lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands ...

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

It seems that southern Africa provided an ecological refuge where people adapted successfully for more than 200,000 years – ...

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