With the human family tree now more like a hedge and twice as many known moons, Bill Bryson talks to the New Scientist ...

Tiny genetic variations between humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans might not be all they were cracked up to be.

When studying how fossil hominids moved, researchers usually analyse the morphology of bones - which is crucial for ...

When studying how fossil hominids moved, researchers usually analyze the morphology of bones—which is crucial for ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest-known evidence of fire-making by prehistoric humans in the English county of Suffolk — a hearth apparently made by Neanderthals about 415,000 years ago — ...

Recent fossil finds could mean that "Lucy" wasn't our direct ancestor, some scientists say. Others strongly disagree.

Human evolution is not a straight line but a complex branching tree shared with other great apes. This overview explains the distinction between hominids and hominins and traces the evolutionary ...

That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...

Using a specially developed simulation model, researchers at the University of Cologne have traced and analyzed the dynamics ...

All year long, these moments captivated the public, demonstrated dangerous trends, and pushed research and innovation forward ...

A newly reconstructed fossil face from Ethiopia reveals surprising complexity in early human evolution. By digitally fitting together teeth and fossilized bone fragments, researchers reconstructed a ...

The oldest hominin fossils outside of Africa hail from Dmanisi in Georgia, yet the debate over which human species these ...