Medney (" Beyond Kuiper ") and co-author Don Macnab-Stark have crafted an intelligent examination of the human condition in ...

The study, published in the journal Nature, is based on a years-long examination of a reddish patch of sediment excavated at ...

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 ...

A team of researchers led by the British Museum has unearthed the oldest known evidence of fire-making, dating back more than ...

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

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 ...

When astronauts set foot on Mars, it will be one of humanity’s greatest milestones, marking the start of a new era of ...

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.

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