Evidence from a remote site on Sulawesi reveals that ancient human relatives crossed a deep ocean barrier more than a million years ago. The discovery extends the earliest known human movements in ...

A handful of stone tools found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi has pushed back the date that human relatives arrived in the region. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Until Homo floresiensis was discovered, scientists assumed that the evolution of the human lineage was defined by bigger and bigger brains. Via a process called encephalization, human brains evolved ...

Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long archaeology project in northeastern Ethiopia, indicate that two different kinds of hominins, or human ancestors, lived in the same place ...

Hobbits of Flores evolved to be small by slowing down growth during childhood, new research on teeth and brain size suggests. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Our understanding of how our species evolved has improved dramatically since we first began analyzing ancient DNA. This year, researchers made impressive discoveries across 3 million years of human ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

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