Just under 300,000 years from the moment Homo sapiens appeared in Africa, the species had encircled Earth, mastering desolate ...

Based on Coll Macià's upper-bound generation interval of about 30 years, there have been at least 10,000 generations of ...

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors to modern humans, researchers now see a tangled, branching tree with ...

Humans really do rule the world. We took over fast and far, more than any other wild vertebrates. We inhabit nearly every corner of the world, and can thrive in deserts, tropical rainforests and even ...

Malaria may have shaped early human life across Africa far earlier than once thought, steering where people could safely live ...

By comparing groups of proteins found in a wide range of species and by analyzing animal models and human patient data, a ...

Why do we have big brains? Or walk on two legs? Biological anthropologist and broadcaster Alice Roberts talks human ...