Genetic tweaks allowed early humans to stand, balance and walk on two legs instead of moving on all fours like other primates ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

Imagine early humans meticulously crafting stone tools for nearly 300,000 years, all while contending with recurring ...

Saliva is a bodily fluid most of us take for granted despite the significant roles it plays: aiding in digestion, maintaining ...

A lost chapter in human evolution has been revealed after an analysis of modern DNA found that we come from not one but two ancestral populations—ones that drifted apart and later reconnected long ...

Neanderthals were meat eaters, but new analyses show that their diets included other morsels. Neanderthals, our extinct ...

In this 4.4-million-year-old skeleton, scientists may have found the missing step between climbing and walking.

Researchers have virtually reconstructed a crushed and distorted 1 million-year-old human skull discovered in China. The newly restored cranium may have belonged to a relative of the mysterious ...

Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long archaeology project in northeastern Ethiopia, indicate that two different kinds of hominins, or human ancestors, lived in the same place ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may be the result of millions of years of evolution. Rapid neuronal evolution in humans is likely ASD’s genetic cause, new research suggests. Though autism can cause ...

The Trump Administration recently called out the Smithsonian Institution for pushing “one-sided, divisive political narratives,” leading GOP Sen. Jim Banks last week to introduce a bill prohibiting ...

It’s the Kingdom of the calcite skull. A horned hominid skull might sound like something out of Greek mythology, but it actually could be a separate species of human ancestor that lived alongside ...