The human body is a machine whose many parts—from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and ...

Using new radiocarbon dating on ancient footprints found preserved in the gypsum-rich ground in White Sands, researchers have ...

The structure of their hands and wrists is more common with modern human dexterity than that of chimpanzees and gorillas. “Since stone tools are found in South Africa by at least 2.2 million years ago ...

In this video, I explain the difference between Hominids and Hominins, including the timeline of when hominins split from hominids and the significance of this distinction. The content covers the ...

The research team at the Atapuerca archaeological sites in Burgos, Spain, has just broken its own record by discovering, for the third time, the oldest human in Western Europe. The team did so for ...

NOVA1 may be a bona fide human 'language gene,' though certainly it's only one of many human-specific genetic changes." Robert B. Darnell, head of the Laboratory of Molecular Neuro-Oncology ...

A new archaeological study, conducted along the Jordan River banks south of northern Israel’s Hula Valley, offers a fresh perspective on the dietary habits of early humans, challenging ...

It has now been 50 years since Lucy’s skeleton was found on that Ethiopian slope, and over the decades she has become an iconic figure in the story of human evolution.

Image by Cleve Hicks. Taming of fire Scientists believe that hominids — the family of humans and all other modern and extinct great apes — made the ground home millions of years ago.

Human evolution is a complex topic that's easy to misunderstand and many myths persist about the past, present, and future of the human species.