The first published research from Tinshemet Cave is quietly reshaping how scientists look at the relationship between ...

The human body is full of evolutionary compromises. The loss of the tail may be one of the clearest examples of how change ...

Wisdom teeth are more than just an uncomfortable dentist appointment. They are evidence of how human evolution cherry-picked ...

A decline in ancient megafauna in the Middle East coincided with a shift towards smaller, lighter toolkits in the ...

A new study shows that early humans shifted from hunting giants to smaller animals, shaping tools, survival, and intelligence ...

Somewhere in the deep past, long before cities, scriptures or even structured speech, an ancestor of ours did something astonishingly simple, yet utterly revolutionary. They held food over fire and ...

Some researchers hold that evolution hasn’t much altered humans in the past 10,000 years. A new analysis of ancient DNA ...

The latest genetic research from Stajnia Cave in southern Poland has successfully reconstructed the genetic profile of the oldest known group of Neanderthals in Central-Eastern Europe. The findings, ...

Blushing, a uniquely human physiological response, signals social awareness and genuine emotion. This involuntary reddening ...

A fossil ape discovered in northern Egypt is reshaping the story of human evolution. The species, Masripithecus, lived about 17 to 18 million years ago and may sit very close to the ancestor of all ...

An international research team from Germany, the UK, and Greece has found evidence that wooden tools were used in Greece ...

From her studies, Fiona concluded that the relative absence of creepy-crawlies was the biggest reason chimpanzees build nests ...