✅ Know Your Terms: Hominin refers to all humans, plus our ancestral species who walked upright on two feet (including members ...

A new analysis suggests the evolution of human body size was marked by a major turning point rather than gradual growth.

(Volodymyr Yakimchuk/Creatas Video+/Getty Images Plus) A seismic shift in the selection pressures acting on humans may have brought us to a major turning point in our evolutionary journey. According ...

A vast stretch of islands across the South Pacific holds one of the oldest human stories on Earth. For tens of thousands of ...

For years, the Denisovans occupied an unusual place in the story of human evolution. They were recognised as one of our ...

Why humans have a philtrum, the groove above your lip, explained by an evolutionary biologist — from embryonic face-building ...

Humans sleep less than every other primate on record, despite having the biggest brains — biologists call it the human sleep ...

Scientists studied the remains of a mysterious human relative called Homo naledi found deep in a South African cave and ...

The history of Myanmar’s democracy and rights movement after 1988 is colorful and fascinating—so why has it not been written? asks David Scott Mathieson.

Instead of hunting big game or wielding fire, the hobbit-like hominin Homo floresiensis likely scavenged leftovers of prey ...

Attraction is a complex blend of social cues and biological signals, many of which are rooted in our evolutionary history.

New research along Turkey’s Ayvalık coast reveals a once-submerged land bridge that may have helped early humans cross from Anatolia into Europe. Archaeologists uncovered 138 Paleolithic tools across ...