Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

A new study published June 18 in the journal Nature has uncovered a “huge surprise” about humans in Africa 50,000 years ago.

Fire is an ancient natural phenomenon that has shaped our planet for more than 400 million years. It alters habitats, affects ...

The new dating of an object found decades ago in Poland reinforces the idea that early humans in Central Europe had ...

Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra.

DNA and protein analysis of a 146,000-year-old skull shows for the first time what the face of this species, which occupied ...

Denisovans, Neanderthals, and early Homo sapiens coexisted and even interbred, leaving behind traces of their DNA in modern humans. In fact, many people today carry small amounts of Denisovan DNA, a ...

A recent study published in the journal L’anthropologie provides new data on one of the most fascinating mysteries of human ...