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

It seems that southern Africa provided an ecological refuge where people adapted successfully for more than 200,000 years – ...

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 ...

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

With an opposable big toe resembling a human thumb, the fossilized Burtele foot suggested its owner was a skilled climber, ...

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 ...

Human faces are famously flatter than those of other primates. Neanderthals, by contrast, had prominent, projecting midfaces ...

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 ...