Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

A remarkable scientific discovery is reshaping our understanding of human evolution. The analysis of an incredibly preserved ...

Scientists have discovered a 'hidden chapter' in human evolution - and it suggests our history is much more complex than we thought. While scientists know humans (homo sapiens) emerged in Africa ...

Fifty years ago, our understanding of human origins began to change with the discovery of Lucy, a remarkably complete, 3.2-million-year-old human relative unearthed from the sandy soil in Hadar ...

Scientists at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome and the University of Bordeaux in France report that human ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. For decades, the dominant theory in human evolution suggested that modern humans ...

Humans were living in rainforests roughly 150,000 years ago, some 80,000 years earlier than was previously thought—and may have been an important center for early human evolution. This is the ...

The enamel that forms the outer layer of our teeth might seem like an unlikely place to find clues about evolution. But it tells us more than you'd think about the relationships between our fossil ...

A lost chapter in human evolution has been revealed after an analysis of modern DNA found that we come from not one but two ancestral populations—ones that drifted apart and later reconnected ...

The Julurens — or “big head” people — are twisting scientists’ long-accepted understanding of human evolution.

This is in contrast with the widely-held belief that recent human evolution has halted. The research has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Professor Henry ...