The familiar claim about humans evolving from apes leaves out an important part of the story. Fossils and DNA reveal a much ...

Natural selection has long been considered the driving force behind human evolution. But a landmark study of 87 fossil skulls spanning the past two million years suggests the story is far more complex ...

Scientists examine DNA evidence connected to early human ancestors. The video explains how researchers study the finding ...

In pursuit of knowledge, the evolution of humanity ranks with the origins of life and the universe. And yet, except when an exciting find hits the headlines, paleoanthropology and its related fields ...

Something about a warm, flickering campfire draws in modern humans. Where did that uniquely human impulse come from? How did our ancestors learn to make fire? How long have they been making it?

Using genealogical relationships in DNA, Berkeley scientists have uncovered hidden contributions from extinct human populations that left no sequenced genomes. [Photo: Meaghan Marohn] A new study ...

Where on earth did we humans come from?Why do humans walk on two legs, speak languages, build civilizations, and even try to ...

For decades, scientists believed ancient humans avoided dense rainforests, treating them as nearly impossible environments for early survival. But a groundbreaking discovery in West Africa is ...

Rainforests are a major world biome which humans are not thought to have inhabited until relatively recently. New evidence now shows that humans lived in rainforests at least 150 thousand years ago in ...