Malaria may have shaped early human life across Africa far earlier than once thought, steering where people could safely live ...

Ancient DNA from nearly 16,000 genomes suggests human evolution accelerated after farming, cities, and the Bronze Age transformed Europe.

A new study of wrist bones suggests human ancestors may have shared a knuckle-walking past with chimpanzees and gorillas.

A groundbreaking archaeological discovery in West Africa is challenging long-held assumptions about early human adaptability and migration. Evidence from a site in Côte d'Ivoire reveals that Homo ...

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how human-specific DNA changes shaped human evolution. Subscribe to our newsletter for ...

Even tiny muscles around the ears hint at our evolutionary past. In many mammals, tiny ear muscles allow the outer ear (pinna ...

For decades, scientists believed ancient humans avoided dense rainforests, treating them as nearly impossible environments ...

Brain size and bipedalism are the most likely drivers of our species’ right-hand dominance, according to new research ...

The research unveils a more intricate narrative of innovation, intelligence, and human evolution in East Asia.

No matter where you are in the world, the humans living there are about 90 percent right-handed while the remaining 10 ...

Food has shaped human history in more ways than most people realize. Over thousands of years, they may also have changed the ...