More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

For decades, a neat story about human origins has floated through textbooks and documentaries: modern humans emerged in East ...

Immense progress has been made over many years of archaeology and study into human evolution, and exciting new information has been uncovered via archaeology.

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is retracing the path of human migration. More specifically, the scientific ...

New fossils link a strange 3.4-million-year-old foot to Australopithecus deyiremeda, a species that mixed climbing skills with its own style of bipedal walking. The evidence shows that multiple early ...

A foot fossil found in Ethiopia belonged to an ancient human. The finding could knock one of the most famous names in human evolution from her spot on the family tree.

Many of the ancient southern Africans, including those who lived between about 10,200 and 1,400 years ago, "fall outside the ...

An ancient, shared set of human-specific genes underwent changes in a geographically isolated population after around 300,000 years ago, scientists say.

The study, published in the journal Nature, is based on a years-long examination of a reddish patch of sediment excavated at ...

Humans likely harvested their first flames from wildfire. When they learned to make it themselves, it changed everything.