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

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

Archaeological research once again dispells the widespread belief that our Paleolithic ancestors were primarily meat-eaters, revealing instead that they were sophisticated plant food processors who ...

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

With the help of newly identified bones, an enigmatic 3.4-million-year-old hominin foot found in 2009, is assigned to a ...

Over time, we have developed - and continue to develop - the traits that help us survive and flourish in the environments where we live ...

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 ...

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 ...

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