An anthropologist highlights the revolutionary role of the practice, which was often led by women, and was just as crucial to ...

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors ...

If you have spent time with an infant, you might recognize the scene: A child is wailing, inconsolable, and you, the parent, have to go to the bathroom. Or eat. Or attend to a pot that’s boiling over.

Researchers from France, China, the UK, and Greece revealed that the Petralona cranium is at least 286,000 years old, placing it firmly in the Middle Pleistocene era. A new scientific study has shed ...

The pelvis is often called the keystone of upright locomotion. More than any other part of our lower body, it has been ...

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

A new study is shedding light on an important connection between human evolution and cancer. It reveals that some of the very genes that helped make our brains smarter are also being misused by ...

A detailed explanation of the evolutionary timeline, starting from the very first primates all the way to us modern humans. 85 million years of evolution in one concise video.

In the deserts of Ethiopia, scientists uncovered fossils showing that early members of our genus Homo lived side by side with ...

The National Museum of Natural History’s Hall of Human Origins vastly distorts the scientific evidence on human evolution, seeking to convince visitors there’s nothing special about us as ...