How did humans become human? Understanding when, where and in what environmental conditions our early ancestors lived is ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may be the result of millions of years of evolution. Rapid neuronal evolution in humans is ...

Newly discovered fossils in Ethiopia show that Homo coexisted with Australopithecus 2.6 million years ago, rewriting the ...

Shamahi charts humanity's evolutionary odyssey. We sat down with her to discuss the path of our species out of Africa to ...

How did humans become human? Understanding when, where and in what environmental conditions our early ancestors lived is ...

Recent fossil discoveries lend credence to the fascinating proposition that non-human species may have coexisted alongside ...

Long before modern humans appeared in Africa about 300,000 years ago, our ancestors faced a crisis that almost ended the ...

This is really early in the archaeological record.

Paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi travels the world digging into the origin of Homo sapiens in a five-part BBC series ...

Denisovans were first discovered as another relation to modern humans in 2010—It turns out they might be our closest relative ...

A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution finds that the relatively high rate of Autism-spectrum disorders in humans is likely due to how humans evolved in the past.

An ASU research team has discovered 13 ancient human teeth in Ethiopia, dating back to 2.6 to 2.8 million years ago, that appear to be different from any previously known species.