One of the biggest mysteries in human evolution has just been solved. In 2010, a groundbreaking genetic analysis revealed that east Asia was once home to a previously unknown group of enigmatic ...

Kissing is an ancient trait retained over the course of evolution amongst the large apes, reveal scientists at the University of Oxford and Florida Institute of Technology.

“The fossil and plant records tell an incredible story,” said Rahab N. Kinyanjui from the National Museums of Kenya. “As the ...

Archaeologists uncovered teeth from an ancient human ancestor in Ethiopia's Afar Region. - Amy Rector/Virginia Commonwealth University Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long ...

Call it archaeology by other means. Rather than sifting through tons of dirt and carefully cataloguing human artifacts, Eske Willerslev and his colleagues have used Illumina NovaSeq Systems to ...

Nearly a century ago, archaeologists started to shift the focus of human origins research from Europe to Africa’s ‘cradles of humankind’ like Oldupai (Olduvai) Gorge in Tanzania. What will the next ...

We are indeed still evolving, though it can be hard to tell because it happens over generations and often involves things you ...

Recent research has unveiled an unexpected link between the ancient human exposure to lead and the evolutionary development ...

It’s still not clear why kissing evolved. From a utilitarian viewpoint, it doesn’t provide any immediate reproductive or ...

A tiny silver goblet discovered decades ago in the Judean Hills might hold the oldest known depiction of cosmic creation – and the scenes etched into its surface tell a surprisingly peaceful story.

Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long archaeology project in northeastern Ethiopia, indicate that two different kinds of hominins, or human ancestors, lived in the same place ...