FILE: Reconstructions of a Neanderthal man, left, and woman at the Neanderthal museum in Mettmann, Germany, March 2009 ...

Human evolution spans millions of years, from early primates to modern Homo sapiens. Fossil evidence, genetic data, and climate shifts help explain how different human species emerged, migrated, and ...

A new digital reconstruction of the face of an early Australopithecus specimen helps add details about the origins of our own ...

Discover the latest news, features and articles about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ...

Ancient linkups may have happened more frequently between female humans and male Neanderthals, according to an new genetic ...

Fasting can have a powerfully positive effect on health and lifespan — effects that can now be delivered in a supplement.

If more human females mated with Neanderthal males than the other way around, over thousands of years you would expect to see just what they found: more human DNA in Neanderthal X chromosomes and less ...

Stone tools found in Israel are at least 1.9 million years old, showing humans left Africa earlier than scientists once believed.

A study published in the journal Science reveals how jumping fragments of human DNA, a type of genetic parasite, destabilize the cancer genome. Unstable genomes are a fertile playground for cancer ...

When ancient humans mated, dad was a Neanderthal, mom was Homo sapiens.

Researchers found that vertebrate eyes - including humans’ - began as brain tissue from a single ancestral light-sensing organ.

Singapore's legal profession is standing at "one of the most consequential crossroads" in its history, with artificial ...