Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little Foot,” fossil an exquisitely preserved hominin found in South Africa’s ...

One of the most complete human ancestor fossils ever found may belong to an entirely new species, according to an ...

Revolutionary fossil evidence from Ethiopia is challenging decades of scientific consensus about human origins. New discoveries suggest that the famous Lucy fossil, long considered a direct ancestor ...

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the process differed from the evolution of chimpanzees. For the study, published ...

Fossils discovered in a quarry cave in Morocco and dated to roughly 773,000 years ago are offering scientists a rare glimpse into one of the least understood periods of human evolution, when the ...

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...

In 1998, researchers discovered one of the most complete known human ancestral fossils in South Africa’s Sterkfontein Caves. Almost two decades later, Ronald Clarke, the paleoanthropologist who had ...

Humans, who are classified among the five great apes, are closest genetically, i.e., DNA similarity, to chimpanzees (98.8%-99%) and bonobos (98.8%). [Blueringmedia ...