The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia.

The evolution of human hands is one of the most important – and overlooked – stories of our origin. Now, new fossil evidence ...

In 2001, researchers unearthed a scattering of fossils beneath the windswept dunes of the Djurab Desert of northern Chad. The remains were later identified as belonging to an extinct species, ...

A new study explains why humans have chins while other primates do not. Researchers found that the chin likely formed as a ...

Biologists have debated the reason why Homo sapiens evolved a prominent lower jaw, but this unique feature may actually be a ...

In 2021, scientists made a breakthrough when they classified a 140,000-year-old skull from Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, as ...

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The African wildcat is considered the closest wild ancestor of modern house cats, but its path to domestication was unlike any other. Instead of being trained or controlled, these cats likely moved ...

Discover the latest news, features and articles about who Neanderthals were, whether they mated with modern humans and when ...

The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia. In this month of love, amid ...

For the ultimate night sky viewing experience, you’ll probably need to leave the Midwest. Big Bend National Park in Texas, ...