Learn more about mammal monogamy rates, which support the theory that the primary mating pattern in Homo sapiens is monogamy.

As if their rights were not important, or – maybe worse – as if we unconsciously stopped believing that they had any. Unfortunately, neither the intervention nor struggle of Arab peoples themselves ...

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

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

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

December might be the last month of the year, but it doesn't mean you can't read something that genuinely changes the way you ...

Now the Guardian’s Top 50 countdowns, as voted for by the whole film team, have announced their No 1s, here are our chief critic’s personal choices – in no particular order ...

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

Archaeologists have found compelling evidence that the early humans who inhabited the Indonesian island of Flores were wiped out by climate change. Homo floresiensis, dubbed the “hobbits” for their ...

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

Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival traits.

Complex geodynamic forces along the Eurasian and African faults are slowly tumbling the Iberian Peninsula toward the ...