Scientists have found new evidence for how our fossil human relatives in South Africa may have used their hands. Researchers investigated variation in finger bone morphology to determine that South ...

Scientists have found new evidence for how our fossil human relatives in South Africa may have used their hands.

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

Misconceptions about human evolution have circulated since the 1920s. At Stony Brook University, researchers in the ...

These discoveries suggest that humans were able to live in rainforest before they left Africa, the home of our species. Until ...

TEHRAN - An archaeological team has uncovered evidence of continuous human presence in the central plains of Kerman, southern ...

New research uncovers how two ancient hominids used their hands in unique ways for climbing, tool use, and movement.

There is still debate, researchers say, over whether the behavior is instinctual or based in more complex thought or even ...

Administration has attempted to censor federal scientific data, cut billions in government spending on research ...

Can a simple pair of eyes on a poster really boost your generosity—or is it all hype? See what studies show so far.

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