This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

Researchers uncover evidence that the gut microbiome and brain connection can influence brain gene expression and neural ...

Rainforests are a major world biome which humans are not thought to have inhabited until relatively recently. New evidence ...

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

New study of 7-million-year-old fossils from Chad proves Sahelanthropus tchadensis walked upright while still climbing trees.

Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a ...

The analysis of dental remains from Dmanisi in the Republic of Georgia has important implications regarding the balance and ...

A collection of bones from Casablanca holds important new clues to the origins of modern humans and Neanderthals.

For the first time, scientists have reconstructed ancient genomes of Human betaherpesvirus 6A and 6B (HHV-6A/B) from ...

A 26-ft (8-m) deep excavation in Indonesia has revealed that humans and a hominin species that pre-dates humans used the same ...

Researchers discovered evidence for human habitation of rainforests 150,000 years ago. This pushes back the oldest known evidence of humans in rainforests by more than double the previously known ...