Imagine being able to travel back thousands of years, not with a time machine, but through the words our ancestors spoke. It ...

Over the last 20 years, genetic research has changed dramatically. An explosion of genomic data has reshaped how we ...

Studying human evolution involves piecing together scattered clues about how we survived against tough odds. One of the ...

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Researchers discovered tools dating as far back as 11,500 years. The tools could be evidence of the earliest human settlement ...

Even compared to chimpanzees, our closest relatives, our wounds are slow to recover – but it could be the outcome of us ...

This discovery establishes the third place that the enigmatic ancient humans first identified ... the security personnel “a very short human evolution lesson.” Before testing the jawbone ...

Historians have long believed that ancient humans fought animals in arena battles, but no definitive evidence has been found ...

An analysis of a jawbone found off the Taiwanese coast reveals it belonged to a Denisovan, a mysterious human species that contributed some genetic material to Indigenous Australians and people living ...