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

(Volodymyr Yakimchuk/Creatas Video+/Getty Images Plus) A seismic shift in the selection pressures acting on humans may have ...

Analysis of 27 genomes reveals more diverse, better-connected populations and challenges the idea that genetic decline caused ...

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

They combined these data with 1,284 previously published genomes from populations around the world. By examining the genetic history of some of the earliest people to settle the Pacific, who arrived ...

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

The time has come to reconsider an outdated understanding of human evolution: it was not a single breakthrough that propelled Homo sapiens into the “human age,” but rather a gradual, nonlinear process ...

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.

For the first time, scientists have shown that ancient human DNA can survive for thousands of years on cave walls, opening ...

“Before the last glacial period, Neanderthals had diverse maternal lineages. As ice sheets advanced and habitable territory shrank, survivors appear to have concentrated in a climate refugium in ...

Analysis of ancient proteins extracted from the fossilized teeth of Homo naledi has revealed a startling new twist in the ongoing mystery of South Africa’s Rising Star cave system. Researchers have ...