It wasn’t just today’s bodies that told the story. Ancient DNA backed it up. The researchers traced the variant through time.

Molecular evidence from a 2-million-year-old southern African hominid species indicates sex and genetic differences in P. robustus.

The more species of Homo there were, the higher the rate of speciation. So when those niches got filled, something drove even more species to emerge. This is almost unparalleled in evolutionary ...

Your teeth play important roles in your daily life, but have you ever wondered how humans evolved to have them? Skin scales of fossil fish may have the answer.

Others point out that a silverback gorilla can lift close to 1,000kg and could throw a grown man like a rag doll ... this silly debate provides an opportunity to reflect on human evolution. What are ...

Courtesy the artist and Milford Galleries, Aotearoa New Zealand A trip into the expansive world of the Japanese-Sāmoan artist, where a reconsideration of what it means to be human ... man and woman ...

[Blueringmedia/Getty Images] Scientists at Yale University say they have published research that provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain ...

The Julurens — or “big head” people — are twisting scientists’ long-accepted understanding of human evolution ... named Homo longi or ‘Dragon Man’, from Northeast China.

This is still a commonly used depiction of human evolution, with the famous Progress diagram having been published in a book called "Early Man" in 1965 explaining how we grew from apes to modern ...

In addition to seeds and nuts, his diet would have consisted of red deer, aurochs (large wild cattle) along with some freshwater fish ... human skeleton ever found in Britain before it went on display ...

A thirty-year-old triathlete can handle a 110-degree day better than a seventy-year-old man with heart disease ... rewriting the story of human evolution. Even at the time, Lucy was not the ...