Denisovans were first discovered as another relation to modern humans in 2010—It turns out they might be our closest relative ...

An ancient skull has finally shown us what the Denisovans looked like. Now it turns out they, not Neanderthals, might be our ...

Brain growth slowed down about 300,000 years ago due to energetic and climate pressures, according to a study published in ...

New Ethiopian fossils show early Homo and Australopithecus lived together, revealing a complex human evolution story.

The fossilized chompers are evidence of a previously unknown hominin that coexisted with the earliest humans 2.8 million ...

Researchers have unearthed tooth fossils in Ethiopia dating to about 2.65 million years ago of a previously unknown species ...

Human evolution is a complex topic that's easy to misunderstand and many myths persist about the past, present, and future of the human species.

Lauren Schroeder looks beyond natural selection to rethink human evolution Paleoanthropologists have long focused primarily on adaptive processes ...

The human chin has been fertile ground for arguments between scientists over its purpose. As with testicles, there are half a dozen plausible ideas to explain the evolution of the human chin.

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...