Images released ahead of a new BBC science series depict Homo floresiensis, Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis plus the ...

A new documentary brings early human history to life with a "scientifically accurate" collection of hyper-real 3D models.

Surprising fossil finds are creating messy kinks in the iconic straight line of human evolution. So much for a simple journey from knuckle-dragging ape to briefcase-carrying man.

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 ...

Human evolution is a complex topic that's easy to misunderstand and many myths persist about the past, present, and future of the human species.

Recent controversies in human evolution, such as what the ancestor of the human lineage may have been and whether the "hobbit" was a different species, could find answers in new analyses of human ...

Engraving an aurochs image on limestone 38,000 years ago, an artist left behind fascinating clues about early modern-human life, says anthropologist Barbara J. King.

Humans Human evolution: The astounding new story of the origin of our species Forget the simple out-of-Africa idea of how humans evolved. A huge array of fossils and genome studies has completely ...

Human evolution pictures Discover more about human evolution Humans might be making genetic evolution obsolete Why did Homo sapiens outlast all other human species?

The Noonan lab at Yale University is focused on understanding how HARs contribute to the evolution of uniquely human brain features.

Research based on a 1.8 million-year-old skull shows that human evolution may have followed a straighter line than scientists previously thought. The skull, unearthed in the former Soviet republic ...

Seven New Things We Learned About Human Evolution in 2021 Paleoanthropologists Briana Pobiner and Ryan McRae reveal some of the year’s best findings in human origins studies ...