This wide-ranging overview traces human evolution from the earliest primates around 85 million years ago through the ...

A badly crushed cranium unearthed decades ago from a riverbank in central China that once defied classification is now shaking up the human family tree, according to a new analysis.Related video above ...

New 3D analysis of a German skull clears up decades of confusion, placing this human firmly in the modern family tree.

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

New genetic research is rewriting the human origin story, showing that our species likely evolved from multiple interconnected populations across Africa rather than a single ancestral group. Fossils, ...

Scientists say they have solved the mystery of the Burtele foot, a set of 3.4 million-year-old bones found in Ethiopia in 2009. The fossils, along with others unearthed more recently, have now been ...

Why do we kiss? The answer involves ancient apes, immune systems and a neurochemical cocktail in the human brain that few can ...