Five major discoveries from 2021 are presented as milestones in human evolution research: the oldest figurative cave art in ...

Paranthropus boisei, Paranthropus robustus, and Paranthropus aethiopicus are examined as a distinct but debated branch of ...

Two fossil skulls found in central China are prompting fresh debate over when they lived – and where they belong in the human ...

The droppings contain DNA, he thought, and perhaps, even after rain washes them away, some DNA might remain. And if it does ...

A new study shows cultural evolution helped humans expand across Earth far faster than genetic change alone could achieve.

Live Science spoke with Herman Pontzer, an evolutionary anthropologist and author of the book "Adaptable," about the science ...

The Neanderthal population shrank during a cold spell around 75,000 years ago, and the loss of genetic diversity may have ...