Fossils and ancient DNA are revealing that human evolution was shaped by repeated interbreeding between different human groups rather than clean separations between species. A recent study focused on ...

(Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities/Facebook) Here's something archaeologists don't see every day, or indeed ever: ...

They might just rewrite the history of human migration.

New research challenges long-standing assumptions about human evolution, revealing that natural selection has been more ...

Some of the smallest organisms might have influenced our own evolutionary path. A new study has found that the distribution ...

Human bones were a sort of social currency during the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age in central Europe. The skeletal remains of the deceased were often ripped apart, severed, and dug out of graves ...

Photo provided to China Daily] High on a cliff in Lushan county of Pingdingshan city, Central China's Henan province, a small ...

A prehistoric hidden cave and hippo bones found beneath Pembroke Castle could transform understanding of ancient life in Britain, researchers said ...

Some researchers hold that evolution hasn’t much altered humans in the past 10,000 years. A new analysis of ancient DNA indicates that natural selection continued to shape hundreds of genes. By Carl ...

A long-overlooked writing system from 5000 years ago is still largely undeciphered, but could mark the moment humans first ...

A new study testifies to how hominins at Gesher Benot Ya’akov took advantage of their environment to fuel fires, showing ...