Humans change the urban landscape with religious, cultural and political activities, which in turn can influence the ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

South Africa has one of the world's richest fossil records of hominins (humans and their fossil ancestors). But many ...

Mud never lies,” added University of Arizona archaeologist Vance Holliday, whose new work has turned a century of hypothesis ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

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

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

The nose tends to be one of the most noteworthy features on a person's face. But what is the origin of the human nose, and ...

New research reveals why early human attempts to leave Africa repeatedly failed—until one group succeeded spectacularly ...

A lost chapter in human evolution has been revealed after an analysis of modern DNA found that we come from not one but two ancestral populations—ones that drifted apart and later reconnected ...

Fifty years ago, our understanding of human origins began to change with the discovery of Lucy, a remarkably complete, 3.2-million-year-old human relative unearthed from the sandy soil in Hadar ...