For decades, the story seemed settled: one early human species left Africa and spread across the world. But a new study ...

The analysis of dental remains from Dmanisi in the Republic of Georgia has important implications regarding the balance and ...

Biologists are quietly rewriting what it means to be alive, and the human body has become one of their strangest frontiers.

Ella Al-Shamahi explores the complexities of our past by meeting the fascinating human species we once shared the planet with ...

One of the most complete human ancestor fossils ever found may belong to an entirely new species, according to an ...

In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little ...

Understanding this crucial point in human history has focused on the Dmanisi Hominid Archaeological Site in Georgia where ...

Many known hominin fossils defy species classification, with the most famous example being the ever-enigmatic Denisovans. A study by anthropologists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the ...

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 ...

The white-handed gibbon comes closest to humans in the study, with a monogamy rate of 63.5%. It’s the only other top-ranked “monotocous” species, meaning it usually has one offspring per pregnancy, ...

The mirror test has fascinated scientists for decades due to its simplicity and revealing nature. First introduced in 1970 by ...