Ancient DNA reveals how farming accelerated human evolution, driving genetic changes over the past 10,000 years.

The idea that modern humans inherited DNA from Neanderthal ancestors is one of the 21st century’s most celebrated discoveries ...

The first published research from Tinshemet Cave is quietly reshaping how scientists look at the relationship between ...

Are humans natural born runners? Here’s why evolutionary and anatomical evidence suggests running was more central to our ...

The very first humans millions of years ago may have been inventors, according to a discovery in northwest Kenya. Researchers have found that the primitive humans who lived 2.75 million years ago at ...

A fossilized foot found in the dusty sediments of northern Ethiopia has reopened one of paleoanthropology’s most consequential questions: how many species of early hominins walked the Earth at the ...