An ASU research team has discovered 13 ancient human teeth in Ethiopia, dating back to 2.6 to 2.8 million years ago, that ...

Long before modern humans appeared in Africa about 300,000 years ago, our ancestors faced a crisis that almost ended the ...

A new fossil find in the Republic of Georgia is expanding our understanding of the earliest humans to leave Africa.

Once dismissed as “junk” DNA, ancient viruses embedded in the human genome play a key role in early human development, research finds.

A groundbreaking discovery reveals that a new species of Australopithecus lived alongside the earliest known Homo over 2.6 million years ago, reshaping our understanding of human evolution.

The pelvis is often called the keystone of upright locomotion. More than any other part of our lower body, it has been ...

A lost chapter in human evolution has been discovered among a collection of teeth that dates back 2.8 million years. Researchers from Arizona State University announced that they have found a ...

For decades, large stretches of human DNA were dismissed as "junk" and considered to serve no real purpose. In a new study ...

An anthropologist highlights the revolutionary role of the practice, which was often led by women, and was just as crucial to ...

Overall what it paints for human evolution is a “chaotic kind of looking evolutionary tree rather than this heroic march that you see with the cartoons of an early ancestor evolving into some ...

Once dismissed as “junk” DNA, ancient viruses embedded in the human genome play a key role in early human development, ...