A new analysis of enigmatic skulls from the Republic of Georgia suggest that Homo erectus wasn't the only human species to ...

A trio of jawbones, a leg bone, and a handful of vertebrae and teeth found in Morocco may represent one of the last common ...

The analysis of dental remains from Dmanisi in the Republic of Georgia has important implications regarding the balance and ...

Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a ...

For decades, the story seemed settled: one early human species left Africa and spread across the world. But a new study ...

Modern human beings are the ultimate apex species, exerting dominance over our environment in a way that no other animal ever ...

A collection of bones from Casablanca holds important new clues to the origins of modern humans and Neanderthals.

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

The white-handed gibbon comes closest to humans in the study, with a monogamy rate of 63.5%. It’s the only other top-ranked ...

A 26-ft (8-m) deep excavation in Indonesia has revealed that humans and a hominin species that pre-dates humans used the same ...

The millions of species humans share the world with are valuable in their own right. When one species is lost, it has a ...

It would be easy to envy bats, bears and hedgehogs their seasonal torpor, but research has suggested that humans once ...