Little Foot” is the most complete Australopithecus fossil ever found. And now we finally have an idea of what this group of ...

Ostrich eggshell fragments dating to 60,000 years ago, unearthed in South Africa and Namibia, were etched with drawings that proved to be nonrandom. “We are talking about people who did not simply ...

Karthik Sankaranarayanan trained in two quite different scientific subfields as a graduate student and as a postdoctoral ...

When the two species got together tens of thousands of years ago, the hookups may have often involved a male Neanderthal and a female human, according to a new study. The findings, described February ...

A new digital reconstruction of the face of an early Australopithecus specimen helps add details about the origins of our own ...

The team calculated that the mosquitoes likely developed their “ anthropophily ”—their taste for human blood—at a point some ...

Researchers found that vertebrate eyes - including humans’ - began as brain tissue from a single ancestral light-sensing organ.

An international team proposes replacing Hockett’s feature checklist with a model of language as a dynamic, multimodal, and socially evolving system.

A research team led by Dr. Chris Baumann and Dr. Dorothée Drucker from the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and ...

Building the human story based on a few artefacts is tricky – particularly for wooden tools that don’t preserve well, or cave art that we don’t have the technology to date. Columnist Michael Marshall ...

Human evolution has long been tied to growing brain size, and new research suggests prenatal hormones may have played a surprising role. By studying the relative lengths of index and ring fingers — a ...