Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Everything that is alive today has evolved, including human beings. Our ancestors evolved many traits that helped them survive in ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. If I tried to recap all the new fossils, new methods and ...

The recent unearthing of a 140,000-year-old child’s skull, which may have been a hybrid of modern human and Neanderthal, has sparked a lively debate among scientists. This discovery could potentially ...

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

A paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution finds that the relatively high rate of autism-spectrum disorders in humans is likely due to how humans evolved in the past. The paper is titled "A general ...

A child's skull discovered in a South African quarry in 1924 changed human history. Named the Taung Child, this fossil proved ...