Some cosmic events could have profoundly altered the lives of our ancient human relatives. Did Neanderthals go extinct, at ...

Denisovans were first discovered as another relation to modern humans in 2010—It turns out they might be our closest relative ...

Micronutrients, vitamins and minerals that are part of the human diet in small amounts, may have influenced human evolution ...

Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis occurred, where life emerged from non-life. Imagine a hot, watery mix of ...

Paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi travels the world digging into the origin of Homo sapiens in a five-part BBC series ...

But Beekman, along with a growing number of scholars, many of them women, emphasizes familial care in our understanding of ...

F or the past century and a half, the concept of evolution has primarily been wielded by those describing change of a purely biological nature. But according to ecologist Mark Vellend, this sort of ...

People with Indigenous American ancestry carry Denisovan genes that Neanderthals passed on when they mated with modern humans.

Researchers have dated the mysterious skull from Petralona Cave in Greece to 300,000 years ago and concluded that the fossil ...

Rearing our unusually underdeveloped young may account for the evolution of language. Michael Marshall is intrigued, but ...

Researchers from France, China, the UK, and Greece revealed that the Petralona cranium is at least 286,000 years old, placing it firmly in the Middle Pleistocene era. A new scientific study has shed ...