A remarkable collection of ancient stone tools proves that human creativity can thrive in challenging times. The complexity ...

On Valentine’s Day in 2018, a team of scientists walked across a flat expanse in the badlands of northeastern Ethiopia, scanning the ground for fossils. An eagle-eyed field assistant, Omar Abdulla, ...

New research challenges long-standing assumptions about human evolution, revealing that natural selection has been more ...

Some of the smallest organisms might have influenced our own evolutionary path. A new study has found that the distribution ...

A Harvard-led study of nearly 16,000 ancient genomes from West Eurasia reveals that natural selection has been far more active in the past 10,000 years than previously believed. Researchers identified ...

New research shows human language evolved through ancient genetic systems that regulate genes, challenging the previous idea.

A landmark Harvard-led study analyzing nearly 16,000 ancient genomes from West Eurasia reveals that natural selection has ...

Ancient DNA reveals women brought farming knowledge to hunter-gatherer communities in Belgium and Netherlands gradually.

Africa’s widening rift is thinning the crust and reshaping the land, helping preserve fossils that reveal new clues about ...

Octopuses 'Kraken' octopus that lived at the time of the dinosaurs was a 62-foot-long apex predator of the ocean Neanderthals Neanderthal toddlers grew faster than modern humans, probably because of ...