A seven-million-year-old fossil may mark the moment our ancestors first stood up and walked.

A new analysis of enigmatic skulls from the Republic of Georgia suggest that Homo erectus wasn't the only human species to ...

The way Sahaleanthropus tchadensis moved has long been debated. The discovery of a small bump on the front of the thigh bone ...

What will human evolution look like in the next thousand or million years? From genetic engineering to space colonization and ...

Fossils from Morocco, dated to 773,000 years ago, reveal an early Homo sapiens lineage, shedding light on Africa’s role in ...

A collection of bones from Casablanca holds important new clues to the origins of modern humans and Neanderthals.

The textbook version of human evolution has long held that Homo erectus was the pioneering species to venture beyond Africa's borders around 1.8 million years ago. However, new analysis of five skulls ...

Kayla Stuart is a Tennessee-based urban forester who leads the organization Tree CPR to create healthier, stronger communities as climate change escalates. She shares her Brief But Spectacular take on ...

WASHINGTON — The search for past or present life should be the top science objective of future human missions to Mars, a new National Academies report concludes. The report, A Science Strategy for the ...

Something about a warm, flickering campfire draws in modern humans. Where did that uniquely human impulse come from? How did our ancestors learn to make fire? How long have they been making it?

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For hundreds of thousands of years, Homo sapiens evolved under the steady pressures of natural environments—savannas, forests, coasts, deserts, and river valleys that shaped everything from our ...