A study confirms that Homo erectus, the direct ancestor of modern humans, arrived hundreds of thousands of years earlier than ...

The team calculated that the mosquitos likely developed their “ anthropophily ”—their taste for human blood—at a point some 2.9 to 1.6 million years ago. This overlaps with the same period in which ...

A study confirms that Homo erectus, the direct ancestor of modern humans, arrived hundreds of thousands of years earlier than previous studies indicated, rewriting our understanding of early human ...

Through the analysis of quartz gravel samples from ground strata, a China-US research team has recently pushed back the date ...

Could a Moroccan cave hold a crucial piece of the puzzle of human origins? Hominin fossils dating back 773,000 years discovered in the country are bringing new evidence to the debate about the last ...

What if Homo erectus (H. erectus), the direct ancestor of modern humans, arrived in China much earlier than we thought? Research published in Science Advances may rewrite our understanding of early ...

What if Homo erectus (H. erectus), the direct ancestor of modern humans, arrived in China much earlier than we thought? New research published in ...

The preference of some mosquitoes in the Anopheles leucosphyrus (Leucosphyrus) group — including those that transmit malaria — for feeding on humans ...

In his new book, Roland Ennos offers eye-opening ideas that the importance of physical power and engineering ...

It's easy to get lost in science fiction when you think about how people will look in the far future, but the question has real scientific roots. Body.

Our DNA reveals extinct "ghost lineages" that shaped human evolution, painting a complex, "braided stream" of history rather than a simple progression. These ancient groups, leaving no fossils, ...

The size of this fossil is very small compared to the common sea cow. Researchers used new technology to re-measure this ...