The study questions the long-held belief that northern Africa became arid around 3 million years ago, which coincides with ...

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

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

This is why Lucy has been the face of human evolution for the last 50 years Other researchers are more confident in holding up H. luzonensis as a new species.

A groundbreaking study suggests that the famous Cambrian explosion—the dramatic burst of diverse animal life—might have actually started millions of years earlier than we thought. By analyzing ancient ...

When Homo sapiens appeared some 300,000 years ago, at least six other human species already shared the planet. Here, in the studio of paleoartist John Gurche, are model representations of those ...

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

Using whole genome sequencing and cutting‐edge analyses, researchers at Stockholm University have uncovered the surprising ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

This important study uses long-term behavioural observations to understand the factors that influence female-on-female aggression in gorilla social groups. The evidence supporting the claims is ...

Binary polymorphisms associated with the non-recombining region of the human Y chromosome (NRY) preserve the paternal genetic legacy of our species that has persisted to the present, permitting ...