A stunning discovery buried deep inside a cave for 1.8 million years is rewriting the story of human evolution.

"We know of only 10 such sites in the entire Middle East." ...

Humans take nearly 18 to 25 years to reach full maturity, far longer than most mammals. This slow human growth is driven by ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A reconstruction of the crushed skull labelled Yunxian 2, which has features that are closer to species thought to have existed ...

It is generally accepted by archaeologists that modern humans originated in Africa and dispersed worldwide, while other ...

A new Yale-led study provides one of the most detailed and comprehensive analyses to date of genetic variation in human ...

Many scientists point to cultural evolution, the process by which knowledge, customs and technology spread over time. But ...

A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution, published by Oxford University Press, finds that the relatively high rate of Autism-spectrum disorders in humans is likely due to how humans evolved in ...

A small collection of 21 teeth may have big implications for the evolution of humans in Asia. The dentition, which comes from a mystery human ancestor that lived at least 300,000 years ago in China, ...

Until Homo floresiensis was discovered, scientists assumed that the evolution of the human lineage was defined by bigger and bigger brains. Via a process called encephalization, human brains evolved ...