(Cícero Moraes) Scientists have used human fossils from Morocco to create a digital face from around 315,000 years ago. The ...

A Brief History of Humankind'. A major question posed in the first half of this book isWhy is it that Homo sapiens is the ...

Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of one of the oldest known members of our species, Homo sapiens, who lived ...

Why do you think you exist here right now?This might be a slightly strange question. Usually, we take our existence for ...

Could humans evolve into an entirely new species? Scientists explore how Mars colonization, genetic engineering, and evolution might transform humanity's future.

A digital reconstruction based on fossils from Jebel Irhoud in Morocco depicts early Homo sapiens who lived about 315,000 ...

Once, we shared our planet with other human species, including Neanderthals and Denisovans. Today, they're gone, leaving behind fossils, ancient tools and traces of their DNA within our own. So how ...

Most of what we knew about early modern humans has been turned upside down in the past two decades – and many more questions ...

Evolutionary genetics challenges a recent two-person origin for the entire human population. It does not necessarily ...

A Siberian cave already famous for yielding the first remains of an extinct human lineage called the Denisovans, who once ...

This bootylicious 'Patrick Star' lives alongside dozens of species we've never seen before. (ROV SuBastian/ROV ...

Archaeologists have discovered a 476,000-year-old wooden structure in Zambia, providing evidence that early human ancestors ...