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

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

For decades, a neat story about human origins has floated through textbooks and documentaries: modern humans emerged in East ...

The Indigenous peoples of the Bolivian highlands are survivors. For thousands of years they have lived at altitudes of more than two miles, where oxygen is about 35 percent lower than at sea level.

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.

Ten fossil teeth belong to new Australopithecus species Found in Afar Region, they are 2.65 million years old This species coexisted with an early Homo species Fossils underscore complex nature of ...

An ancient, shared set of human-specific genes underwent changes in a geographically isolated population after around 300,000 years ago, scientists say.

New research reveals ancient humans in southern Africa lived in isolation for nearly 100,000 years. This led to unique ...

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...

Along the dry shores of northern Kenya, a long turquoise lake quietly records the tug of deep forces. Lake Turkana looks ...

Scientists have uncovered new evidence suggesting that autism may have it roots in how the human brain has evolved. "Our results suggest that some of the same genetic changes that make the human brain ...