Modern humans (Homo sapiens) are the sole surviving representatives of the human family tree, but we're the last sentence in an evolutionary story that began approximately 6 million years ago and ...

For the vast majority of our planet’s history, there were no humans. Today, there are more than eight billion of us. Logically, then, there must have been a moment when Homo sapiens became a distinct ...

Newly published research appearing in the journal Nature (Ragsdale, A. P. et al., “A weakly structured stem for human origins in Africa,” Nature [2023]) proposes a new interpretation regarding the ...

The climate and early human societies were changing quickly during the fall of our closest evolutionary relative—and are big clues to the causes of their demise. This reconstruction of a Neanderthal ...