Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

For generations, the story of human origins has been a complex tapestry, pieced together from fossil records and genetic ...

As our ancestors developed more advanced tools and cultural practices, they also developed new ways of explaining concepts to ...

A team of European and African researchers used a method known as paleoproteomics to recover fragments of proteins from the ...

Feature Scientists are finding ever-earlier examples of artistic expression in the archaeological record that reshape what we know about the cognitive abilities of our archaic human relatives ...

Neanderthal populations suffered a single late genetic bottleneck, refuting long-held theories about their diversity.

People coming from the north settled South America. The first hunter-gatherers entered the continent from the region of what ...

First detected in 2015, gravitational waves may not have had a direct hand in human evolution, but it certainly helped set ...

The Scopes “monkey trial” garnered international attention, and the battle that was fought continues in some form in other ...

The brain's complexity stems from evolutionary layering—new functions built atop ancient foundations, resulting in a tangled ...