New research revealing that ancient Africa's climate was unexpectedly rainy, challenging previous theories about human ...

Thesefossils, unearthed from the depths of Southeast Asia’s Sunda Shelf, provide valuable insights into the migration and ...

The study questions the long-held belief that northern Africa became arid around 3 million years ago, which coincides with ...

Human infants receive up to 400 times more direct vocal communication than baby bonobos and nearly 70 times more than baby ...

Two new studies add to the evidence that human activity, from fishing to urban development, is driving the evolution of wild ...

Cod used to be giants. With their impressive size—over a meter in length and weighing up to 40 kilograms—and abundance, they, ...

Some species have been known to circle back to lost traits, but it's rare and not usually though the same genetic lines.

A new study has unearthed surprising information about humans in Africa, which could upend previously held beliefs about human evolution.

In 2021, researchers working in New Mexico published a paper that contributed to what remains one of the most controversial ...

Scientists have recovered genetic material from a skull found in northeastern China, which they say reveals the most complete ...

Despite their genetic contributions to present-day East Asians and Oceanians, what Denisovans looked like has remained an ...

Mounting evidence from genome studies indicates that, ... Yersinia pestis, which caused the bubonic plague pandemic known as the Black Death, have been major drivers of human evolution.