Denisovans interbred with early humans multiple times, leaving genes that helped modern humans adapt to varied environments, ...

A University of Hawaiʻi researcher says he may have found a new human species called Homo juluensis, which includes ...

Human evolution, traditionally driven by natural selection, may have reached a point where technological and medical ...

A study published in Cell Reports has uncovered tiny genes, called microgenes, that have evolved since our ancestors diverged ...

A 1.5-million-year-old lakebed from Kenya shows two ancient human relatives cohabitating an environment, shaking up our ...

Remarkably preserved footprints of Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei offer direct evidence that extinct hominin species ...

The researchers believe the footprints were made within hours of each other on the shores of an ancient lake in present-day ...

Newly discovered 1.5-million-year-old footprints reveal how two extinct human species crossed paths within hours of each ...

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

Millions of years ago, Lucy revolutionized our understanding of human evolution. Now, discover how her contemporaries add ...

Lucy has and continues to play a fundamental role in our understanding of our ancient ancestors and how we evolved.

More than a million years ago, on a hot savannah teeming with wildlife near the shore of what would someday become Lake ...