More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

10,000-Year-Old Genomes Rewrite Human Evolution ...

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

Immense progress has been made over many years of archaeology and study into human evolution, and exciting new information has been uncovered via archaeology.

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

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is retracing the path of human migration. More specifically, the scientific ...

New fossils link a strange 3.4-million-year-old foot to Australopithecus deyiremeda, a species that mixed climbing skills with its own style of bipedal walking. The evidence shows that multiple early ...

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.

Modern humans did not evolve from monkeys or any other animal that lives today. Humans continue to evolve but the traits we pass down aren't always for the species' betterment. "Survival of the ...

Humans likely harvested their first flames from wildfire. When they learned to make it themselves, it changed everything.