This shift, researchers say, marks a climatic tipping point—and it may have shaped the evolution of our species. “Things were ...

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 ...

Most people alive today carry fragments of Neanderthal DNA in their genome. Now scientists are gaining a more intimate ...

Researchers have identified a "tipping point" about 2.7 million years ago when global climate conditions switched from being ...

When ancient humans mated, dad was a Neanderthal, mom was Homo sapiens.

Stone tools found in Israel are at least 1.9 million years old, showing humans left Africa earlier than scientists once believed.

Geneticists have a better understanding of how prehistoric pairings unfolded, with new research suggesting they were mostly ...

Human intelligence wasn’t a cosmic evolutionary fluke, some scientists say. The case against cosmic loneliness is growing.

A new study explains why humans have chins while other primates do not. Researchers found that the chin likely formed as a ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. When writing headlines for stories about human evolution, ...

“Our analyses show that the historical [human Rhinovirus] A genome represents an extinct lineage closely related to HRV A19 ...

Human evolution spans millions of years, from early primates to modern Homo sapiens. Fossil evidence, genetic data, and climate shifts help explain how different human species emerged, migrated, and ...