“Modern humans were essentially like waves crashing on a beach, slowly but steadily eroding the beach away.” With this vivid simile, Princeton geneticist Joshua Akey describes a process that, until ...

The ancestors of humans started making tools about 3.3 million years ago. First they made them out of stone, then they switched to bone as a raw material. Until recently, the earliest clear evidence ...

A 5,500-year-old skeleton from Colombia has revealed the oldest known genome of the bacterium linked to syphilis and related ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The white skulls are the original, warped fossils, while the grey ones are digitally corrected replicas. (CREDIT: Fudan University ...

The museum’s groundbreaking Hall of Human Origins centers around the adaptations that set early humans apart Jack Tamisiea What does it mean to be human? This question, deceptively simple and imbued ...

Ancient tools from central China are flipping the script, revealing early humans were far more innovative than history once gave them credit for.

“Our results push back the association of T. pallidum with humans by thousands of years, possibly more than 10,000 years ago ...

Evolutionary biologists have long believed that the human-biting mosquito, Culex pipiens form molestus,evolved from the bird-biting form, Culex pipiens form pipiens, in subways and cellars in northern ...