Look in the mirror and the feature that quietly sets you apart from every other species is not your eyes or your opposable ...

In the research, published Wednesday (Jan. 7) in the journal Nature, a team of Moroccan and French researchers detailed their ...

Bones From 773,000 Years Ago Capture Human Evolution at a Crossroads In A Nutshell Ancient African fossils dated to around ...

Scientists have long debated how modern humans evolved. For decades, most researchers agreed that Homo sapiens came from one ancestral group in Africa, dating back 200,000 to 300,000 years. But new ...

The jawbones and vertebrae of a hominin that lived 773,000 years ago have been found in North Africa and could represent a ...

New study of 7-million-year-old fossils from Chad proves Sahelanthropus tchadensis walked upright while still climbing trees.

Researchers studied ancient tooth fossils and found that a gene mutation in modern humans (right) better protected them against lead and gave them an advantage over Neanderthals (left). Kyle Dykes / ...

Ancient human relatives ran on two legs, like modern humans, but at a much slower pace, suggest 3D computer simulations of Australopithecus afarensis 1 — a small hominin that lived more than three ...

Modern humans are evolutionary survivors, thriving generation after generation while our ancient relatives died out. Now, new research into our brain chemistry suggests that an enzyme unique to Homo ...

Excerpted from Dinner with King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists Are Re-creating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations by Sam Kean. Copyright ...