South Africa has one of the world's richest fossil records of hominins (humans and their fossil ancestors). But many ...

Images released ahead of a new BBC science series depict Homo floresiensis, Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis plus the ...

A 140,000-year-old hybrid child's skull found in Israel shows traits of both Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, rewriting the ...

PROTEUS, a system designed to harness “directed evolution,” can speed the process up by years, or even decades.

A new documentary brings early human history to life with a "scientifically accurate" collection of hyper-real 3D models.

New research reveals a hidden geometric ratio in Leonardo’s drawing that may define the endpoint of human evolution toward ...

In this new series, Human, paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi reveals our incredible story across 300,000 years of human ...

For thousands of years, humans have selectively bred dogs to fulfill specific roles, ranging from guarding and hunting to ...

"Evolution is part deterministic—there are rules for how systems evolve—and part random—mutations and environmental changes are primarily unpredictable," Thomas Mailund, an associate ...

In 1929, archaeologists discovered the 140,000-year-old skeleton of a young girl in Skhūl Cave. The researchers believed her ...

Human testicles are much smaller, in proportion, to some of our primate cousins. Evolution can tell us why. But the size of ...