Combining archaeological evidence with ancient DNA and data on past climates shows us how long and winding the story of human ...

The human family tree is becoming harder to fit into the categories scientists have used for decades. Research from Monash ...

Wild monkeys in West Africa can climb vertical tree trunks using foot flexibility scientists did not realize they possessed.

The names scientists give to humanity’s ancient relatives are more than labels. They encode a story about who counts as close ...

Uncover 25 ancient human discoveries that challenge our understanding of early man. See how new fossils and DNA finds are ...

He lived hundreds of thousands of years ago, eking out an existence in what is today central China. Sporting a squat neck and a big brain, he likely wielded tools made of stone and hunted or scavenged ...

A reanalysis of a one-million-year-old human skull found in China is challenging the established timeline of human evolution, and suggests a new branch of the human family tree, as well as a possible ...

The three-dimensional shape of a protein can be used to resolve deep, ancient evolutionary relationships in the tree of life, according to a study in Nature Communications. It is the first time ...

Learn how fossils show human ancestors did not grow bigger in a straight line, but split into larger and smaller evolutionary paths. Early relatives such as Australopithecus weighed around 88 pounds ...

When we look at the world around us, we see a wonderous variety of living things—with fins, fronds or feet, living in the deepest ocean or the driest deserts, eating seeds or salmon or sunlight. The ...