The history of human evolution can continue to give us unique findings that completely change what we already know. In this ...

From ancient hybrid humans to older-than-expected fossils, 2021 delivered several discoveries that reshaped the human evolutionary timeline. These findings challenged long-held assumptions about ...

Scientists working in Ethiopia's Afar Region have made discoveries that rewrite our understanding of early human history. For ...

A new study theorizes that evolution ticks at different speeds, especially when a big group of organisms first appears.

A stencilled outline of a hand found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is the world's oldest known cave painting, ...

Fossils discovered in a quarry cave in Morocco and dated to roughly 773,000 years ago are offering scientists a rare glimpse ...

Scientists have recovered a genome of Treponema pallidum—the bacterium whose subspecies today are responsible for four ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

In the 19th century, the linear idea of time became dominant – with profound implications for how we experience the world ...

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A groundbreaking study published in The Anatomical has challenged previous assumptions about human evolution.

Two prehistoric genomes have revealed the history of HPV and challenged the idea that Neanderthals first transmitted the ...