Once overlooked, Morocco has emerged as a focal point of human prehistory, with new discoveries and a landmark report ...

New research suggests fire was key to making our bodies successful in evolution – but not in the ways we previously thought.

Humans’ exposure to high temperature burn injuries may have played an important role in our evolutionary development, shaping how our bodies heal, fight infection, and sometimes fail under extreme ...

The evolution of the human species is marked by an increase in brain size. Now new research suggests that could be partly ...

Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to unravel in 2025. Analysis of DNA extracted from the fossil electrified the ...

Human evolution is often told as a tidy story of adaptation, yet some of our most familiar body parts still defy straightforward explanation. From the jut of the human chin to the curve of the outer ...

Every step you take depends on a structure most people rarely think about. The pelvis sits at the center of the body and ...

At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

A recent study proposes a new paradigm for understanding the role of carrion in the subsistence of human populations throughout their evolution. Ana Mateos and Jesús Rodríguez, scientists at the ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

Researchers found that ancient hominids—including early humans—were exposed to lead throughout childhood, leaving chemical traces in fossil teeth. Experiments suggest this exposure may have driven ...