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

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

A longstanding question in evolutionary biology is how sexual selection influences how entire genomes develop. Sexual ...

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

Ten years ago, nobody knew that Asgard archaea even existed. In 2015, however, researchers examining deep-sea sediments ...

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 ...

Tiffany Yap and Meital Smith's beautifully written and illustrated comic book is a must-read, scientifically based story ...

It's not every day you hear police officers discovered human teeth buried in someone's yard and they say there's a "logical explanation." However, in Hondo, a town about 40 miles west of San ...

This photo provided by João Zilhão shows forearm bone fragments belonging to an ancient child that appeared to have features from both humans and Neanderthals. (João Zilhão via AP) 33,571 ...

Humans have spent centuries shaping the world. But nature wouldn’t hesitate to take over if we suddenly disappeared. Cities would crumble, and forests would spread. And certain species would ...

New research suggests that humans inhabited the rainforests of West Africa roughly 150,000 years ago, providing new insights into our ancestors' ability to adapt to challenging environments ...

Historian Christa Kuljian and paleoanthropologist Dipuo Kgotleng talk to The Conversation Weekly podcast about the ...