Remarkable new fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal that a prehistoric relative of humans was also extremely small and ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that modern humans emerged from two long-separated ancestral groups, not just one. This ...

Who were our earliest ancestors? The answer could lie in a special group of single-celled organisms with a cytoskeleton similar to that of complex organisms, such as animals and plants.

Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ...

The human body is an extraordinary machine, constantly surprising scientists with its remarkable capabilities and adaptations. From enduring extreme conditions to performing incredible physical and ...

Two events emerged last week that raised my concern about the censorship of books and the erasing of language used in public discourse.

Henry Gee’s previous book, A Brief History of Life on Earth, made an interestingly downbeat read for a title that won the UK’s science book prize. He emphasised that a constant feature of that history ...

Fossils are like time capsules, offering us a rare chance to glimpse the distant past. Over the years, a number of ancient ...

However, until this year, the 'human parts list' was still incomplete. We often forget that every gene, every protein and every cell is composed of even smaller parts – namely metabolites.

This is why, when palaeoanthropologist Donald Johanson in 1974 discovered Lucy, the partial skeleton of a 3.2-million-year-old human ancestor of the small-brained species Australopithecus afarensis, ...

The United States joined Pakistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Chile, Slovakia and 37 other countries on the CIVICUS’s monitor list of potential human rights threats. The global nonprofit ...

At the time the tools were made, three different species of human ancestors lived in the same region of East Africa, said Briana Pobiner, a paleoanthropologist at the Smithsonian’s Human Origins ...