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 ...

This DNA is arguably the 21st century’s most celebrated discovery in human evolution. But in 2024, a pair of French ...

Data from more than 15,000 ancient people reveal natural selection of hundreds of genes linked to immunity, skin tone, ...

The Ethiopian government on Tuesday announced the discovery of ancient Homo sapiens fossils and stone tools dating back about 100,000 years, which it said provides "important new insights" into human ...

A major climate simulation covering the last 2 million years is used alongside more than 3,000 fossils and archaeological records to explore how precipitation and temperature shifts shaped the ...

A decline in ancient megafauna in the Middle East coincided with a shift towards smaller, lighter toolkits in the ...

Massive herbivores became scarce in the Middle East about 200,000 years ago, and this coincided with a shift towards smaller, ...

A special good morning to all the redheads listening.  There's some new Harvard research come out about human evolution and ...

Because grandmothers helped out, we, as an entire species, grew to live longer and longer and developed our big brains, tiny ...

We’re in the Turkana Basin in Northern Kenya, a part of the world responsible for so many hominin fossil finds that it’s ...