The picture of human evolution has changed repeatedly and dramatically over the past half century, shaped by waves of new ...

Brain size increased gradually within each ancient human species rather than through sudden leaps between species.

A tiny skeleton, unearthed from Triassic-aged rocks in a quarry near Bristol, is at least 205 million years old and the ...

Modern humans, Neanderthals, and other recent relatives on our human family tree evolved bigger brains much more rapidly than ...

Once inside the body, HIV persists because of its remarkable ability to hide within healthy CD4 T cells, where it can lie ...

Recent research challenges the theory that long childhood in humans is due to large brain sizes. Instead, analysis of early ...

The fossils proved to be from a previously unknown human ancestor—one that branched off from anatomically modern humans and Neanderthals about 1 million years ago. According to the study announcing ...

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek tells Host Carolyn Beeler about Suyanggae, South Korea, an archaeological zone with rare and precious relics of the peoples who first arrived there up to ...

"By leveraging the surviving Denisovan segments in modern human genomes scientists have uncovered evidence of at least three past events whereby genes from distinct Denisovan populations made their ...

But those stays didn't establish a lasting human presence on the moon. More than 50 years after the most recent crewed moon landing — Apollo 17 in December 1972 — there are plenty of reasons ...

This way, it allows more computers to make use of the Modern Standby mode. Modern Standby offers two modes— Connected and Disconnected. The former is the same as Connected Standby, but the later ...