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

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

A new AI study finds leopards hunted early humans in East Africa, challenging long-held ideas about when our ancestors became ...

The very first humans millions of years ago may have been inventors, according to a discovery in northwest Kenya. Researchers ...

“Our work highlights how evolutionary adaptations to diet and disease may have influenced primate biology, including humans,” ...

Humans stand out among mammals for our ability to run long distances without falling apart. That ability links back to early ...

Language has enabled humans to innovate, communicate, and thrive globally, with over 7,000 languages spoken today and ...

Before 2.75 million years ago, the Namorotukunan area featured lush wetlands with abundant palms and sedges, with mean annual precipitation reaching approximately 855 millimeters per year. However, ...

New evidence from South China reveals how early humans adapted to environmental transformations during the Late Pleistocene.

We now have only the second high-quality genome from an ancient Denisovan human, which reveals there were more populations of ...

By redefining aging as an evolutionary achievement, Michael Gurven challenges a youth-obsessed culture to see the later ...

Two small changes in human DNA may have played a big role in helping our ancestors walk upright, researchers say.