When our distant ancestors first traded nomadic life for farming, villages, and permanent homes, you might assume that the ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral ...

Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis occurred, where life emerged from non-life. Imagine a hot, watery mix of ...

New research challenges long-standing assumptions about human evolution, revealing that natural selection has been more ...

Human Evolution 'Human evolution didn't slow down; we were just missing the signal': Large DNA study reveals natural selection led to more redheads and less male-pattern baldness Archaeology Did ...

A composite view of the Earth constructed by NASA from multiple satellite images Editor at Large Human evolution is a story writ slow. It’s been about 3.8 billion years since life on Earth emerged and ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. If I tried to recap all the new fossils, new methods and ...

How far back in evolutionary history does kissing go? Through phylogenetic analysis, an international team of scientists found that kissing was likely present in the ancestor of all apes – which lived ...

Birds 'I'm more hopeful that birds can endure than maybe even our own species': Paleontologist Steve Brusatte on why birds are the ultimate survivors Human Evolution 'Human evolution didn't slow down; ...

The evolutionary case for eating meat is etched into human anatomy — but so is the case against it. The science deserves more ...

Why do 90% of humans reach with the same hand? The answer stretches back millions of years and involves fossils, language and ...