An international study led by researchers from Australia's La Trobe University and the University of Cambridge has challenged ...

Short ancient humans in Indonesia called Homo floresiensis disappeared possibly due to severe drought that gripped their ...

Specimen found in South Africa was widely thought to be member of ape-like human ancestor family that lived nearly 2 million ...

Australian-led study suggests iconic South African skeleton differs from known Australopithecus species, media reports - ...

Another twist has been added to the puzzling mix that is early human ancestry with evidence that one of the most complete pre ...

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is retracing the path of human migration. More specifically, the scientific ...

New fossils link a strange 3.4-million-year-old foot to Australopithecus deyiremeda, a species that mixed climbing skills ...

A team of researchers at University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences has proposed the introduction of a new human ...

A new study uses sibling genetics to compare monogamy across species. Humans score higher than expected and sit close to ...

The monogamy rate in humans may be higher than you expected... but we do it in a strange way compared to other animals.

Human beings have been at the center of ecological change on Earth for thousands of years. But as history shows, no species ...

A study by University of Liverpool researchers reveals that the species hardest to detect—those rarely seen, recorded, or ...