This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

For decades, the story seemed settled: one early human species left Africa and spread across the world. But a new study ...

Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to ...

The pelvis is often called the keystone of upright movement. It helps explain how human ancestors left life on all fours ...

The analysis of dental remains from Dmanisi in the Republic of Georgia has important implications regarding the balance and ...

In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little ...

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 evolved testicles of all different sizes. In almost all these separate cases, ...

One of the most complete human ancestor fossils ever found may belong to an entirely new species, according to an ...

Artificial intelligence has seen a huge surge of popularity in recent months, even years, and with programs like ChatGPT continuing to dominate headlines of the news cycle and other parts of life, A.I ...

Modern humans did not evolve from monkeys or any other animal that lives today. Humans continue to evolve but the traits we pass down aren't always for the species' betterment. "Survival of the ...

The domestication of dogs began around 15,000 years ago, when wolves first started to be domesticated by humans. It is believed that early humans tamed wolves and eventually bred them to create the ...

Researchers find Apennine brown bears evolved into a smaller, less aggressive animal after centuries of coexistence with ...