When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 ...

A previously unknown species of Australopithecus have been discovered in Ethiopia’s Afar region, coexisting with early Homo ...

Scientists digitally reconstructed a 1 million-year-old skull unearthed in China. The analysis suggests it may have belonged ...

A new study concludes that the speed at which the human brain evolved may help explain why our species experiences autism.

In 1990, an ancient human skull was unearthed in China's Hubei Province that was so badly deformed during fossilization that ...

What makes the human brain different from that of other primates has long been a question. A new study suggests that the ...

Stanford study finds rapid brain cell evolution boosted human cognition but lowered autism gene activity, raising ...

More than 20 species make a nearly identical noise to warn nearby birds of brood parasites, a behavior that bridges the ...

Everywhere you go, you carry a population of microbes in your gastrointestinal tract that outnumber the human cells making up ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull rewrites our understanding of human evolution, scientists have claimed.

A recent study dramatically pushes back the date for the emergence of our species, though some researchers call for further ...