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 ...

A new DNA model suggests humans didn't reach Australia until 50,000 years ago, but archaeological data disagrees.

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

Have you ever wondered why human ears are built the way they are, and how they came to be? Science has yet to fully uncover ...

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 ...

Footprints found in the ancient lakebeds of White Sands may prove that humans lived in North America 23,000 years ago — much earlier than previously believed. A new study using radiocarbon-dated mud ...

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

"This new hypothesis takes this further in arguing that these hormones may have also shaped the evolution of the human brain," he said in the press release. Testing the theory To test this theory, ...