The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain ...

The skull, found in China in 2019, looks like an ancient modern human but has the chin of a Denisovan. It could rewrite the story of how our species evolved.

When Homo sapiens appeared some 300,000 years ago, at least six other human species already shared the planet. Here, in the studio of paleoartist John Gurche, are model representations of those ...

The Lucy Fossil’s Extraordinary Journey to Becoming an Icon of Human Evolution. The 3.2-million-year-old human ancestor known as Lucy rose to fame through an incredible combination of circumstances.

Hundreds of early human fossils, artifacts and forensically recreated faces of mankind's prehistoric relatives went on display Wednesday, exploring 6 million years of evolution at the National ...

Its discovery has been called a "game changer" for our understanding of human evolution 3.8 million years ago. The reconstructed face of MRD, a young male belonging to the Australopithecus anamensis.

The turn of the next millennium is still a long way off, but that hasn’t stopped scientists from simulating what future human evolution might look like when the year 3000 hits. The result? A ...

Let’s talk about the biggest coincidence in human evolution. To fully appreciate this coincidence, you need to see it in context. The oldest known hominins lived 7 million years ago, ...

Human evolution is the part of biological evolution concerning the emergence of humans as a distinct species. It is the subject of a broad scientific inquiry that seeks to understand and describe ...