For decades, the story seemed settled: one early human species left Africa and spread across the world. But a new study ...

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The analysis of dental remains from Dmanisi in the Republic of Georgia has important implications regarding the balance and ...

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This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

Analysis of hundreds of single-cell genomes from Yellowstone National Park shows bacterial species are less cohesive than previously thought.

The answer is as obvious as it seems – the Earth looks flat when you're standing on it, not cone-shaped. Visual evidence ...

This photo taken on Dec 6, 2024 shows human skull fossil fragments displayed at the exhibition hall of Hualongdong site in Dongzhi county of Chizhou city, East China's Anhui province. [Photo/Xinhua] ...

A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

Lucy's position in the history of human evolution is currently being challenged. The Lucy fossil species, or Australopithecus ...

The origin story of the human species is far from set in stone. Paul Salopek sits with a sculpture of a Homo erectus reading a book at the Chinese Academy of Science. China has become a hotbed of ...