“Large brains and dexterous hands are considered pivotal in human evolution, together making possible technology, culture and ...

Neanderthals still shared the Earth with our ancestors. Recent discoveries are challenging our linear view of human evolution. Advances in genetics reveal that our ...

If you have spent time with an infant, you might recognize the scene: A child is wailing, inconsolable, and you, the parent, have to go to the bathroom. Or eat. Or attend to a pot that’s boiling over.

Modern humans emerged roughly 300,000 years ago, but our genus Homo is much older. So what's the oldest human species on ...

Hundreds of stone tools discovered in Kenya have revealed that human relatives traveled long distances to find raw material.

For decades, large stretches of human DNA were dismissed as "junk" and considered to serve no real purpose. In a new study ...

An anthropologist highlights the revolutionary role of the practice, which was often led by women, and was just as crucial to ...

How did the evolutionary ancestors of Homo sapiens separate from the ancestors of modern apes? A key ingredient leading to modern human beings, according to researchers at the University of ...

Thousands of years ago, ancient humans undertook a treacherous journey, crossing hundreds of miles of ice over the Bering ...

Technology is integral to evolution. Understanding technology's relationship to human welfare means grasping its role within the flow of biological and human life.