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

A newly published scientific study is reigniting debate over human evolution in Africa after researchers suggested that the ...

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

Human evolution is not a straight line but a complex branching tree shared with other great apes. This overview explains the ...

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an ...

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 ...

Medney (" Beyond Kuiper ") and co-author Don Macnab-Stark have crafted an intelligent examination of the human condition in ...

A team of international scientists, led by Dr. Karen Baab, a paleoanthropologist at the College of Graduate Studies, Glendale ...

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is retracing the path of human migration. More specifically, the scientific ...

After decades of excavation and debate, a new analysis argues that Little Foot — one of the most complete hominin fossils ...

Schizophrenia affects around 23 million people globally, or one in 345 people. The illness can beset sufferers with ...