A recent study dramatically pushes back the date for the emergence of our species, though some researchers call for further ...

Scientists have reexamined a badly crushed skull discovered back in 1990 in Hubei Province, China — known as Yunxian 2 — and ...

A human skull believed to be older than a million years could alter our understanding of human evolution. Leading scientists have made a eureka breakthrough after analysing an ancient skull, known as ...

A deformed human skull discovered over thirty years ago in central China is now upending what researchers believed they ...

A reconstruction of a one-million-year-old skull suggested that our species started to emerge hundreds of thousands of years ...

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

Courts have affirmed evolution's place in education. Creationism is just a belief, not based on empirical data, and not ...

Over the course of our long, complicated evolutionary history, humans have seen our brains triple in size, now weighing in at roughly three pounds on average. At some point along the way, humans ...

Back once again with another edition of 10 Facts You Need to Know Before Week 2. For those looking for “Love/Hate,” I am still doing it, but it’s no longer a written column. Instead, it’s the Thursday ...

Newly discovered fossils in Ethiopia show that Homo coexisted with Australopithecus 2.6 million years ago, rewriting the timeline of human evolution. Far from a straight line, early human history was ...

Micronutrients, minerals that are part of the human diet in small amounts, may have influenced human evolution more than previously recognized. In a new study published Sept. 10 in the journal The ...