Researchers say the analysis suggests Homo sapiens may have emerged at least half a million years earlier than previously ...

Scientists found that the Turkana people of northern Kenya evolved special genes within 5,000-8,000 years to help them ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull rewrites our understanding of human evolution, scientists have claimed.

He lived hundreds of thousands of years ago, eking out an existence in what is today central China. Sporting a squat neck and ...

Digital reconstruction of a partially crushed skull suggests new insight into Homo sapiens’ evolutionary relationship to Denisovans and Neandertals.

The findings have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers said.

A groundbreaking million-year-old skull discovered in China challenges established timelines of human evolution, suggesting ...

Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis occurred, where life emerged from non-life. Imagine a hot, watery mix of ...

Some cosmic events could have profoundly altered the lives of our ancient human relatives. Did Neanderthals go extinct, at least in part, due to changes in Earth’s magnetic field? Did Australopithecus ...

What will human evolution look like in the next thousand or million years? From genetic engineering to space colonization and AI integration, this video explores the fascinating possibilities that ...

When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the ...