A stunning discovery buried deep inside a cave for 1.8 million years is rewriting the story of human evolution.

Humans take nearly 18 to 25 years to reach full maturity, far longer than most mammals. This slow human growth is driven by ...

The time has come to reconsider an outdated understanding of human evolution: it was ...

Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered a remarkable site "protected from the ravages of time," revealing an early human ...

Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis occurred, where life emerged from non-life. Imagine a hot, watery mix of ...

In this new series, Human, paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi reveals our incredible story across 300,000 years of human evolution and how – with the help of the latest discoveries – we’re learning ...

Researchers discovered that autism’s prevalence may be linked to human brain evolution. Specific neurons in the outer brain evolved rapidly, and autism-linked genes changed under natural selection.

An international study changes the view that exposure to the toxic metal lead is largely a post-industrial phenomenon. The research reveals that our human ancestors were periodically exposed to lead ...

A new Yale-led study provides one of the most detailed and comprehensive analyses to date of genetic variation in human ...