Since the turn of the millennium, our understanding of our ancestors and extended cousins has shifted dramatically, thanks to ...

The return of humans to the British Isles after the end of the last ice sheet, which covered much of the northern hemisphere, ...

The 2-million-year-old partial skeleton may even represent the oldest example of H. habilis discovered so far. It includes a ...

For most animals, losing fur would be a death sentence. Hair isn’t cosmetic in the wild, it’s survival gear. It protects ...

Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a ...

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

Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in ...

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

Humans are the only primates that run nearly naked under the sun. Here’s how this biological tradeoff reshaped how our ...

A new study from Northwestern University is reshaping how scientists think about brain evolution. The research suggests that ...

Sustainable success depends less on geography and more on how talent is onboarded, managed and empowered to contribute ...

As animals go about their lives ― eating, fighting, having babies ― they don’t always follow the script laid out for them by ...