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

Fossils and ancient DNA are revealing that human evolution was shaped by repeated interbreeding between different human groups rather than clean separations between species. A recent study focused on ...

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

NEW YORK — Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago. But we don’t know much about who got with whom, or why. A new genetic ...

Scientists in Germany have been able to get enough DNA from a fossilized pinky to produce a high-quality DNA sequence of the pinky's owner. "It's a really amazing-quality genome," says David Reich of ...

DNA switches that predate humans and Neanderthals still influence how people speak today, offering new clues about language ...

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

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

Human bones were a sort of social currency during the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age in central Europe. The skeletal remains of the deceased were often ripped apart, severed, and dug out of graves ...

New research has revealed that ancient people in southern Arabia dined on an apex predator — sharks. The study, recently published in the journal Antiquity, centers on a tomb in Wadi Nafūn, an ...