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

In China, researchers studying the burial site of one of the world's most well-preserved mummies also unearthed what's ...

The discovery of a Lucy, a 3.2 million-year-old skeleton changed our theory of human evolution forever. The discovery is celebrating its 50-year anniversary, continues to capture human imagination.

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.

House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) past endorsement of a creationist theme park has a large — often older and more Republican — constituency.

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, ...

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 ...

How Chewing Shaped Human Evolution An experiment revealed that chomping on slightly tougher material requires markedly more energy.

A misleading bar chart comparing modern carbon dioxide (CO2) levels to those millions of years before humans existed ignores a large CO2 increase during the human era that has changed the climate ...

Human genetic diversity and evolution rely on new mutations and exchange of DNA between chromosomes during the generation of sex cells, in a process called recombination. Recombination manifests ...

The story of how us humans—and other mammals—got our noses may have just gotten more complicated. This is the conclusion of a new study by researchers from Japan who have studied how the face ...

The comparatively long length of human childhoods might be due to the need to forage for increasingly complex items.