Long before humans spread across the globe, a deadly disease may have quietly shaped where our ancestors lived—and even how we evolved. New research reveals that malaria didn’t just threaten early ...

But for earlier humans, meat consumption appeared to be a critical, yet somewhat poorly understood, contributor to ...

Learn more about Cave 338 and the artifacts researchers discovered inside of if, which indicate it was a valuable meeting ...

Learn how fossil evidence reveals the repeatable way early humans accessed, processed, and shared meat.

Neanderthal intelligence may have been similar to modern humans, with research showing minimal cognitive differences between ...

From rigid brow ridges to expressive arches, your eyebrows tell a story of how human faces evolved to signal emotion, ...

A rare fossil discovery in Ethiopia has pushed the known range of Paranthropus hundreds of miles farther north than ever before. The 2.6-million-year-old jaw suggests this ancient relative of humans ...

Since the early 20th century, people’s skulls have got rounder and their jaws have got wider, probably because of changes in ...

A University of California, Riverside study reports that cells in the earliest stages of human development could be ...

Seattle-based SageOx, founded by Amazon and Apple veterans, raised $15M to build an AI "hivemind" that keeps human teams and ...

A long-overlooked writing system from 5000 years ago is still largely undeciphered, but could mark the moment humans first ...