When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the ...

Human evolution is a story writ slow. It’s been about 3.8 billion years since life on Earth emerged and steadily began to ...

New research reveals that scavenging may have helped early humans adapt, expand, and endure tough seasons through smart use ...

For decades, Paranthropus boisei, an early hominin that roamed eastern Africa a million years ago, was known for its gigantic ...

Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis ...

In this 4.4-million-year-old skeleton, scientists may have found the missing step between climbing and walking.

We now have only the second high-quality genome from an ancient Denisovan human, which reveals there were more populations of ...

Two small changes in human DNA may have played a big role in helping our ancestors walk upright, researchers say.

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

A recent study proposes a new paradigm for understanding the role of carrion in the subsistence of human populations ...

In his new BBC show, Jim Al-Khalili journeys through hundreds of millions of years of brain evolution. Live Science spoke to ...