The lab, founded in the late 1980s by Ethiopia’s first paleoanthropologist, Berhane Asfaw, was set up to prevent the export ...

Braces, rubber bands, even jaw surgery—millions endure them in pursuit of a straighter smile. But were misaligned smiles ...

A study of tool use among chimps, our closest living relatives, has cast light on the human evolutionary journey.

The timeline of human evolution outlines the major events in the development of humans species and the evolution of human's ancestors. It begins with the time of the origin of life and presents a ...

A team led by Laurits Skov and Benjamin Peter from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology sequenced nuclear, mitochondrial and Y-chromosome DNA of 13 Neanderthal individuals. From ...

In a surprise twist, the evolution of human bipedalism might have nothing to do with learning to walk on land.

Beyond human ancestry, the researchers say their method could help to transform how scientists study the evolution of other species.

Svante Paabo's discoveries on human evolution provided key insights into our immune system and what makes us unique compared with our extinct cousins.

The comparatively long length of human childhoods might be due to the need to forage for increasingly complex items.

Where do we come from and how did we evolve into the beings and bodies we are today? The new book "Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution" argues for a better ...

Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

Svante Pääbo’s work on sequencing the DNA of Neandertals and Denisovans, which won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, revealed surprising interbreeding among human species ...