In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new ...

New research reveals ancient humans in southern Africa lived in isolation for nearly 100,000 years. This led to unique ...

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

Learn how genomes from 28 ancient individuals show that Homo sapiens lived in southern Africa in near isolation for hundreds ...

How far back in evolutionary history does kissing go? Through phylogenetic analysis, an international team of scientists ...

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 ...

Two macaques learned to keep time with various songs, which might point to how humans got their sense of rhythm. But some ...

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 ...