A new study warns modern life may undermine key human survival traits, from fertility to cognition, as environmental ...

For decades, a neat story about human origins has floated through textbooks and documentaries: modern humans emerged in East ...

Human biology evolved for a world of movement, nature, and short bursts of stress—not the constant pressure of modern life.

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

Researchers say they’ve uncovered new evidence in present-day England that could reshape our understanding of human evolution ...

Scientists discovered a new human species, Homo juluensis, in the Xujiayao site in China that lived 200,000 years ago.

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe. Using advanced analysis based ...

An experimental study of modern chimpanzees has documented patterns of behavior that seemingly mirror those of our prehistoric human ancestors, casting light on how our predecessors may have utilized ...

New research reveals ancient humans in southern Africa lived in isolation for nearly 100,000 years. This led to unique ...

John Gowlett receives funding from PAST Africa and Wenner-Gren Foundation, and his work has previously been supported by The Leverhulme Trust. He is associated with a new series of podcasts on human ...