Homo sapiens' entry into Europe might have hastened Neandertals' extinction. Neandertals may have had a greater penchant for ...

UCSB's Professor David Tilman just recieved the National Medal of Science for revealing the importance of biodiversity.

Once Africans became items of commerce, it became imperative that their status be recalibrated and their human status ...

Researchers say they have identified a new species of ancient hominin, Homo juluensis, that could help solve another big ...

People lived in many parts of the Old World by then but had not yet reached Australia or the Americas. The bulk of the human ...

Human populations that left Africa evolved quickly whereas Neanderthals stayed the same, according to an analysis of blood ...

A new study indicates that human behavior around 45,000 to 29,000 years ago contributed to a change in the composition of ...

The human brain is formed by a complex network of neural connections and most of them link neighboring brain regions, which ...

Embarking on a journey through the annals of human evolution, we uncover a narrative that is as fascinating as it is complex. This saga not only chronicles the physical transformations experienced by ...

This reconstructed visage of "Dragon Man" from the Harbin Skull is linked to a group of early humans called the Denisovans.

To reconstruct the environmental conditions during the time of Homo erectus, the research team used advanced modeling ...