With studies of fossilized bones, gut contents, eggshells and more, paleontologists revealed new and captivating details ...

Over a century ago, anthropologist Raymond Dart chipped an ancient skull out of some rock from an ancient quarry — and revealed the face of an ancient human relative.

The most comprehensive dataset of termite genomes to date was created by an international team of scientists, led by ...

The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 ...

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 ...

People typically think about evolution as a linear process where, within a species, the classic adage of "survival of the fittest" is constantly at ...

1 The Advanced Seed Institute, Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Resources, Plant Precision Breeding Academy, College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Key Laboratory of Plant Factory ...

For the next few weeks, this column will focus on “Christmas in the Past,” a series of columns that will feature ways Americans celebrated Christmas in the past and how the way we currently celebrate ...