Futurist Michio Kaku sees humans doing ballet on Mars and projecting their brains into the cosmos. And aliens? Oh, they're ...

Hidden in the darkness of a remote limestone chamber, a cluster of ancient finger marks has forced archaeologists to confront ...

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 ...

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

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

The items were taken in the late 19th century from what was then called the Dutch East Indies. Indonesia had been trying to ...

Star contributors pick their top four in five different genres, from Emma Donoghue's disaster epic to S.A. Cosby's Southern ...

A 1.6-million-year-old Ethiopian skull blends ancestor and descendant features, rewriting the origin story of Homo erectus.