Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to ...

In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

The brains of ultramarathon runners are of particular interest to researchers because they offer a glimpse into our evolutionary past when humans had to cover long distances to find food and other ...

I was listening to a scientist on a radio show. One of the things he said that got me thinking was that human bodies are still going through the journey of evolution and that our knees are perhaps a ...

The Sima de los Huesos hominins lived approximately 400,000 years ago during the Middle Pleistocene. Four-hundred-thousand-year-old human remains found deep in the Pit of Bones — a cave 43 feet under ...

Many people hold the view that evolution in humans has come to a halt. But while modern medicine and technologies have changed the environment in which evolution operates, many scientists are in ...

Much of what we think we know about human evolution has largely been attributed to natural selection – namely that species evolve by adapting to their environments. But Lauren Schroeder, a ...

For decades, small grooves on ancient human teeth were thought to be evidence of deliberate tool use – people cleaning their teeth with sticks or fibres, or easing gum pain with makeshift “toothpicks” ...

Revolutionary fossil evidence from Ethiopia is challenging decades of scientific consensus about human origins. New discoveries suggest that the famous Lucy fossil, long considered a direct ancestor ...

Here are 10 major findings about human ancestors and our close ancient relatives that scientists announced in 2025. A handful ...