The pelvis is often called the keystone of upright locomotion. More than any other part of our lower body, it has been ...

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors ...

New Ethiopian fossils show early Homo and Australopithecus lived together, revealing a complex human evolution story.

An ancient skull has finally shown us what the Denisovans looked like. Now it turns out they, not Neanderthals, might be our ...

The Julurens — or “big head” people — are twisting scientists’ long-accepted understanding of human evolution.

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

How did the evolutionary ancestors of Homo sapiens separate from the ancestors of modern apes? A key ingredient leading to modern human beings, according to researchers at the University of ...

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the process differed from the evolution of chimpanzees. For the study, published ...

A lost chapter in human evolution has been revealed after an analysis of modern DNA found that we come from not one but two ancestral populations—ones that drifted apart and later reconnected ...