A vast stretch of islands across the South Pacific holds one of the oldest human stories on Earth. For tens of thousands of ...

Unlike most other animals, humans often favor one hand over the other, but scientists have never known why. Now, however, ...

✅ Know Your Terms: Hominin refers to all humans, plus our ancestral species who walked upright on two feet (including members ...

For nearly 30 years, a landmark study shaped how scientists understood the relationship between brain and body size in ...

Scientists extracted proteins from Homo naledi teeth for the first time and found evidence that only females were buried.

Summary: A new study has completely revived and expanded this lost chapter of human evolution. Leveraging modern molecular genetic dating and advanced phylogenetic statistical modeling, researchers ...

Neanderthal babies have always been hard to study, mostly because their remains are so rare. That scarcity has left one of ...

A recent study, published in Cell, marks the first ancient protein analysis of Homo naledi and raises the possibility that ...

Evolution is always happening — so why can't we see it? A biologist explains the timescale problem, election pressure, and ...

Is it possible to study the history of viruses that emerged several hundred million years ago? An international team of INRAE and CIRAD researchers answered this question by exploring plant genomes to ...

Environmental DNA from rivers worldwide reveals how climate boosts fish diversity—and how human activity is disrupting that ...