More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

For decades, a neat story about human origins has floated through textbooks and documentaries: modern humans emerged in East ...

Human evolution is often told as a tidy story of adaptation, yet some of our most familiar body parts still defy ...

New fossils link a strange 3.4-million-year-old foot to Australopithecus deyiremeda, a species that mixed climbing skills ...

Immense progress has been made over many years of archaeology and study into human evolution, and exciting new information has been uncovered via archaeology.

Researchers at University of Tsukuba have demonstrated, through multi-agent simulations in a two-dimensional space, that the ...

Modern humans did not evolve from monkeys or any other animal that lives today. Humans continue to evolve but the traits we pass down aren't always for the species' betterment. "Survival of the ...

A foot fossil found in Ethiopia belonged to an ancient human. The finding could knock one of the most famous names in human evolution from her spot on the family tree.

The domestication of dogs began around 15,000 years ago, when wolves first started to be domesticated by humans. It is believed that early humans tamed wolves and eventually bred them to create the ...

Medney (" Beyond Kuiper ") and co-author Don Macnab-Stark have crafted an intelligent examination of the human condition in the 23rd century as it surges into an existential era of decision, and we’ve ...