You've seen it before. The chart of an ape walking on all fours, shedding its hair, standing upright, grabbing a spear and ...

The origins of human language remain mysterious. Are we the only animals truly capable of complex speech? Are Homo sapiens the only hominids who could give detailed directions to a far-off freshwater ...

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe. Using advanced analysis based ...

A fossilized skull discovered in central China and dated to roughly 1 million years old has upended the timeline of human ...

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A deformed human skull discovered over thirty years ago in central China is now upending what researchers believed they ...

Two of the traits that set modern humans apart from non-human primates are taller stature and a higher basal metabolic rate. Publishing in the Cell Press journal Cell Genomics on May 21, researchers ...

A lost chapter in human evolution has been revealed after an analysis of modern DNA found that we come from not one but two ancestral populations—ones that drifted apart and later reconnected long ...

Two of the traits that set modern humans apart from non-human primates are taller stature and a higher basal metabolic rate. Researchers have identified a genetic variant that contributed to the ...

The significant push back in the date of origin of modern-day humans is notable. It indicates that, in the last 800,000 years ...