A million-year-old skull from China, Yunxian 2, reshapes our understanding of human origins and ancient human relatives.

By tracing when variations in the human genome first appeared, researchers have found that advances in cognitive abilities ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull rewrites our understanding of human evolution, scientists have claimed.

More than 20 species make a nearly identical noise to warn nearby birds of brood parasites, a behavior that bridges the “sharp division between animal communication systems and human language” A ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 ...

Scientists digitally reconstructed a 1 million-year-old skull unearthed in China. The analysis suggests it may have belonged ...

An ancient skull unearthed in China’s Hubei Province may push back the emergence of the human species by 400,000 years ...

A previously unknown species of Australopithecus have been discovered in Ethiopia’s Afar region, coexisting with early Homo over 2.6 million years ago—overturning long-standing assumptions about the ...

More than 20 species make a nearly identical noise to warn nearby birds of brood parasites, a behavior that bridges the ...

Stanford study finds rapid brain cell evolution boosted human cognition but lowered autism gene activity, raising ...

Researchers digitally reconstructed a crushed skull and concluded our species is 1 million years old, igniting a debate over ...

The findings have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers said.