Scientists have uncovered evidence that modern humans emerged from two long-separated ancestral groups, not just one. This ...

Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ...

The left hip and leg bones from a young female Paranthropus robustus discovered in South Africa show she was extremely short ...

The discovery of a human facial fragment aged over one million years represents the oldest known face in western Europe and confirms the region was inhabited by two species of human during the early ...

Remarkable new fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal that a prehistoric relative of humans was also extremely small and ...

Humans are having a highly detrimental impact on biodiversity worldwide. Not only is the number of species declining, but the ...

The Victorian palaeontologist Richard Owen incorrectly argued that the human brain was the only brain to contain a small area ...

According to the results of a massive new synthesis study of over 2,000 publications, which leaves no room for ambiguity or ...

Parents looking to promote health and intelligence in their children can pick and choose their embryos now. There could be ...