Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a ...

Learn about the most complete Homo habilis fossil ever found, and how this fossil is changing what we know about human ...

Humans are the only primates that run nearly naked under the sun. Here’s how this biological tradeoff reshaped how our ...

The cave, known as Grotte à Hominidés, contains assemblages of jawbones, teeth, and vertebrae dating back to 773,000 years ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in ...

In the technical description, the authors emphasize that the skeleton includes clavicle and shoulder-blade fragments, both upper arms, both forearms, plus part of the sacrum and hip bones - rare ...

A collection of bones from Casablanca holds important new clues to the origins of modern humans and Neanderthals.

Many people today simply assume that our evolution has quietly ended with the development of the modern human. It's easy to think that medicine, science, and modern living have made us "perfect" or ...

We've all been there: watching a movie when suddenly your eyes well up, or hearing a song that sends tears streaming down ...

Bonobo evolution reveals bonding and group cohesion in response to threats, favoring paths to finding peace instead of ...