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 ...

The 3.2-million-year-old fossil, discovered 50 years ago, is considered to be one of the most significant early hominin ...

A collection of 3-million-year-old bones unearthed 50 years ago in Ethiopia changed our understanding of human origins.

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek tells Host Carolyn Beeler about Suyanggae, South Korea, an archaeological zone with ...

Scientists believe individuals of the most recently discovered hominin group (the Denisovans) that interbred with modern day ...

These ancient humans were once thought to be a distinct species, but were later recognized as practically indistinguishable ...

In 2010, the first draft of the Neanderthal genome was published, and comparisons with modern human genomes revealed that Neanderthal and modern humans had interbred in the past. A few months later, ...

With millions of mice and rats in US labs alone, scientists can learn a lot of information from their scurrying test subjects. These animals may be small, but their contribution to current research is ...

Thousands of clay tablets recovered from early human cultures that lived between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers in modern-day Iraq and Syria reveal that kissing was considered a part of romantic ...

We know throughout history that the size of modern humans and extinct human species—a collective group known as "hominins"—has varied significantly, from the roughly 30kg Australopithecus ...

A video demonstrates what the first humans may have looked like, and it doesn't look far off modern-day man It's crazy to think that that everybody on this planet descended from the same two people.

What might all of this say about human evolution? We know throughout history that the size of modern humans and extinct human species – a collective group known as ‘hominins’ – has varied ...