Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

In 1921, William Bell Riley admonished his opponents that they should “cease from shoveling in dirt on living men,” for the ...

The study questions the long-held belief that northern Africa became arid around 3 million years ago, which coincides with ...

Humans lost their ability to synthesize their own vitamin C because our ancestors had access to plenty of fruit.

“You could see this as kind of a natural experiment in human evolution,” says Gerrit van den Bergh of the University of Wollongong, an expert on H. floresiensis.

When Homo sapiens appeared some 300,000 years ago, at least six other human species already shared the planet. Here, in the studio of paleoartist John Gurche, are model representations of those ...