The 3.2-million-year-old human ancestor known as Lucy rose to fame through an incredible combination of circumstances ...

First identified by archaeologists in 1978, the site was initially found to be home to at least 70 hominin footprints ...

Our readers look back to the oldest known musical instrument and consider the role music had in bringing communities together ...

Our ancient evolutionary cousins on Flores represent a unique lineage who lived during a time multiple human species were ... of rat bones reveal about the history of ‘hobbits’ on Flores.) ...

Recent discoveries revealed that our ancestors interbred with Denisovans on at least three separate occasions, leaving traces ...

New research published Thursday in the journal Science suggests the amylase gene has a much longer evolutionary history than scientists ... as 800,000 years ago, our human ancestors began to ...

One of the 20th-century's biggest quests was to find the “missing link,” a being who connected humans to their pre-historic ancestors. It was also the height of scientific racism.

The aforementioned data raises the possibility that gene–culture co-evolution may have been widespread, and acted on many human traits, throughout the history of our species. However ...

In romantic movies, kissing often symbolizes love, yet this simple act of pressing lips together has peculiar origins.

It is unclear exactly why the animals went extinct, but scientists say that human activity or climate change contributed to ...