Human evolution is not a straight line but a complex branching tree shared with other great apes. This overview explains the distinction between hominids and hominins and traces the evolutionary ...

Fossils discovered in a quarry cave in Morocco and dated to roughly 773,000 years ago are offering scientists a rare glimpse ...

A new study theorizes that evolution ticks at different speeds, especially when a big group of organisms first appears.

Could Homo sapiens and an archaic and now-extinct species of early human have lived alongside each other on the Indonesian ...

Could we - that is, Homo sapiens - and an archaic and now-extinct species of early human have lived alongside each other on ...

A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

Between roughly 600,000 and one million years ago, Africa’s fossil record goes strangely quiet. Genetic evidence suggests ...

Could Homo sapiens and an archaic and now-extinct species of early human have lived alongside each other on the Indonesian ...

The rise of agentic commerce allows AI agents to handle transactions autonomously, shifting decision-making from humans to ...

Researchers have discovered the earliest known instance of human-created fire, which took place in the east of England ...