A vast stretch of islands across the South Pacific holds one of the oldest human stories on Earth. For tens of thousands of ...

Scientists studied the remains of a mysterious human relative called Homo naledi found deep in a South African cave and ...

(Volodymyr Yakimchuk/Creatas Video+/Getty Images Plus) A seismic shift in the selection pressures acting on humans may have brought us to a major turning point in our evolutionary journey. According ...

A stunning discovery buried deep inside a cave for 1.8 million years is rewriting the story of human evolution.

A new analysis of thousands of bones from an Indonesian cave suggests Homo floresiensis scavenged Komodo dragon kills rather ...

Human-AI interactions can resemble human-human social interactions, with computers, and especially AI-driven technologies, becoming increasingly important social actors. It is in these interactions ...

Hundreds of hominin fossils reveal that human body size remained stable for ages before a sharp increase in early members of ...

Humans Are Still Evolving. Natural Selection Has Favored Genes Linked to Red Hair and Less Male-Pattern Baldness, a Study ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain ...

In pursuit of knowledge, the evolution of humanity ranks with the origins of life and the universe. And yet, except when an exciting find hits the headlines, paleoanthropology and its related fields ...