Scientists studied the remains of a mysterious human relative called Homo naledi found deep in a South African cave and ...

We have identified the gene that, when activated, initiates the developmental programme that results in cells forming a human ...

This video traces the human evolutionary tree from great apes to modern Homo sapiens, explaining the difference between ...

New fossil discoveries are reshaping scientists’ understanding of a pivotal chapter in human evolution, revealing that ...

A stunning fossil discovery in Ethiopia shows that early Homo and a previously unknown Australopithecus species lived together around 2.6 to 2.8 million years ago. The find overturns the classic ...

Research led by the University of Cambridge Loke Centre for Trophoblast Research has shown that a genome editing technique ...

A new study uses precise base editing on human embryos for the first time, proving the NANOG gene is the master switch for body development.

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

Smithsonian paleoanthropologists reveal some of the year’s most fascinating findings about human origins Ryan McRae and Briana Pobiner An artist's depiction of a person carving a pendant from bones of ...