Human Footprint, a docuseries now in its second season on PBS. The latest episode, Dressed to Kill, explores apparel and the ...

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

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

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

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

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

The law books record it as State of Tennessee v. John T. Scopes. History remembers it as the “ Monkey Trial .” The case ...

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

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

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 ...

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