Modern human beings are the ultimate apex species, exerting dominance over our environment in a way that no other animal ever ...

A team of researchers at University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences has proposed the introduction of a new human ...

(Reuters) -Researchers have unearthed tooth fossils in Ethiopia dating to about 2.65 million years ago of a previously unknown species in the human evolutionary lineage, one that lived in the same ...

All humans today are members of the modern human species Homo sapiens — Latin for "knowing man." But we're far from the only humans who ever existed. Fossils are revealing more and more about early ...

“Burns are a uniquely human injury. No other species lives alongside high temperatures and the regular risk of burning in the way humans do,” study co-author Joshua Cuddihy of Imperial’s Department of ...