Our species, Homo sapiens, has been evolving for more than 300,000 years, but the story of human origins starts much earlier.

Humans are the only primates that run nearly naked under the sun. Here’s how this biological tradeoff reshaped how our ...

The cave, known as Grotte à Hominidés, contains assemblages of jawbones, teeth, and vertebrae dating back to 773,000 years ...

Long before humans became master hunters, our ancestors were already thriving by making the most of what nature left behind. New research suggests that scavenging animal carcasses wasn’t a desperate ...

Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a ...

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 ...

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Those who use their bodies to survey the boundaries.

A new study from Northwestern University is reshaping how scientists think about brain evolution. The research suggests that ...

Early humans were not just scavengers. New research shows they actively butchered elephants, transforming survival and social ...

In the technical description, the authors emphasize that the skeleton includes clavicle and shoulder-blade fragments, both upper arms, both forearms, plus part of the sacrum and hip bones - rare ...

The study of human evolution and comparative anatomy bridges palaeontology, biomechanics and evolutionary biology to elucidate the origins of our unique anatomy. Recent analyses have shed new light on ...