In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new ...

Human evolution is often told as a tidy story of adaptation, yet some of our most familiar body parts still defy ...

An ancient, shared set of human-specific genes underwent changes in a geographically isolated population after around 300,000 years ago, scientists say.

Many of the ancient southern Africans, including those who lived between about 10,200 and 1,400 years ago, "fall outside the ...

A groundbreaking fossil discovery beneath the waters off Java, Indonesia, is reshaping long-held ideas about early human ...

On an expedition in the Awash Valley in Ethiopia, two anthropologists uncovered the bones of a 3.2 million-year-old human ...

Newfound fossils in modern-day Ethiopia suggest that the mysterious foot belonged to a recently named species, Australopithecus deyiremeda. The finding could alter the story of human evolution ...

Learn how genomes from 28 ancient individuals show that Homo sapiens lived in southern Africa in near isolation for hundreds ...

Ancient Chinese astronomers observed a solar eclipse in 709 BCE with remarkable detail. These old records are now helping ...

Scientists have discovered that a mysterious foot found in Ethiopia belonged to a previously unknown ancient relative similar ...

Modern humans did not evolve from monkeys or any other animal that lives today. Humans continue to evolve but the traits we pass down aren't always for the species' betterment. "Survival of the ...