Fired by a political animus and what constitutes good science, the “Naledi Wars” show no immediate sign of abating.

In the animal kingdom, injuries are a fact of life. In fact, wounds are so common that most mammals evolved ways to close ...

Researchers have determined that a mysterious jawbone discovered on the seafloor off the coast of Taiwan was Denisovan, proving that the archaic humans were distributed widely over Asia.

For more than one million years, naturally occurring basalt rock spheres have been used by hominin species as a type […] ...

Humans likely breed for these features because they most closely resemble those of human infants and trigger ... and trigger parental instincts. Homo Sapiens is one of the most altricial species ...

A new genomic study in Science encompassing more than 300 genomes spanning the last 50,000 years has revealed how a single wave of Neanderthal gene flow into early modern humans left an indelible ...

If you ever travel back in time to hang out with Homo sapiens around 41,000 years ago, pack some sunscreen – or better yet, a ...

A new archeology is being developed based on evidence of human activity in the Earth’s sedimentary record, and archeologists ...

A revised age for a German site indicates that our evolutionary cousins organized horse ambushes around 200,000 years ago.

which explains why 500,000 LINE-1 repeats now represent a “staggering” 20 percent of the human genome. These repeats drive genome evolution, but can also cause neurological diseases, cancer, and aging ...