Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe. Using advanced analysis based ...

The idea that modern humans inherited DNA from Neanderthal ancestors is one of the 21st century’s most celebrated discoveries in evolution. It may not be that ...

New clues about our earliest ancestors suggest they may have reached Eurasia sooner than scientists once thought. Fossils found in Romania hint that hominins left Africa nearly two million years ...

Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis occurred, where life emerged from non-life. Imagine a hot, watery mix of ...

Stone tools like this one, excavated at the Anyama site, reveal that humans were present at the rainforested site roughly 150,000 years ago. Credit: Jimbob Blinkhorn, MPG Stone tools like this one, ...

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

The story of Charles Darwin’s life. His theory of evolution changed the way we understood our place in the world.

Viruses, Infections & Disease 'Brain-eating' amoebas are nearly always fatal. New treatments may change that. Human Evolution 'Human evolution didn't slow down; we were just missing the signal': Large ...