Modern humans wandered in from the southeast and found a continent already home to a very different kind of human: the ...

When scientists first discovered these remains of a teenage girl in 2010, they knew that the history of early humans was ...

Instead, various traits we associate with anatomically modern humans probably appeared in a type of “mosaic evolution” that Neanderthals also seem to have exhibited. Modern humankind “wasn ...

These 15 inventions were selected for their far-reaching impact and transformative influence on society, and have laid the ...

Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

Researchers found traces of Mycobacterium lepromatosis in thousand-year-old human remains in Canada and Argentina.

Newly found fossils show that those rivers were home to fish, turtles, river sharks, and even hippos. On land, elephants, buffaloes, and a now-extinct elephant-like animal called stegodon roamed the ...

This actor perhaps played the one character that made every Pixar fan ball their eyes out in the first 10 minutes of his film.

“Previous studies have suggested that this shift influenced many traits and phenotypes in anatomically modern humans. It is therefore not surprising that height may also have been affected.” Meat did ...

An ancient granite pebble included indentations resembling a face, its nose a red dot. A study says it may have had symbolic ...

Humans really are seasonal, even though we might not want to admit that in our modern context. Day length, the amount of sunlight we get, it really influences our physiology. The study shows that ...

Miles points to the early establishment of large human settlements that expanded into cities such as Mesopotamia about 12,000 years ago. "That makes sense because modern humans moved out of caves ...