Learn more about the gene linked to the evolutionary loss of human tails, and how, in rare cases, some people are still born ...

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 ...

Recent discoveries have reshaped the human evolutionary timeline, from older stone tools to newly identified human species ...

To Shakespeare’s Hamlet we humans are “the paragon of animals”. But recent advances in genetics are suggesting that humans are far from being evolution’s greatest achievement. For example, humans have ...

The pelvis is often called the keystone of upright movement. It helps explain how human ancestors left life on all fours ...

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 ...

For many people, discomfort during a medical injection or a long tattoo session feels especially intense. According to new ...

A lost chapter in human evolution has been revealed after an analysis of modern DNA found that we come from not one but two ancestral populations—ones that drifted apart and later reconnected long ...

A groundbreaking international study changes the view that exposure to the toxic metal lead is largely a post-industrial phenomenon. The research reveals that our human ancestors were periodically ...

Our species, Homo sapiens, has been evolving for more than 300,000 years, but the story of human origins starts much earlier.