Could social bonds be the key to human big brains? A study of the fossil teeth of early Homo from Georgia dating back 1.77 million years reveals a prolonged childhood despite a small brain and an ...

Microorganisms—bacteria, viruses and other tiny life forms—may drive biological variation in visible life as much, if not ...

Compared to the great apes, humans have an exceptionally long childhood, during which parents, grandparents and other adults contribute to their physical and cognitive development. This is a key ...

Palaeontologists have pieced together the brain structure of a bird that lived 80 million years ago named Navaornis hestiae, ...

A study suggests that the human act of kissing is a remnant of grooming, in which great apes use lip suction to clean the fur ...

Recent discoveries revealed that our ancestors interbred with Denisovans on at least three separate occasions, leaving traces of Denisovan DNA in modern human populations.

Perhaps most importantly, Lucy’s discovery foreshadowed a series of fossil finds that filled in the scientific picture of her species. By 1978, enough evidence had accumulated to establish Lucy as the ...

Archaeologists uncovered a 150,000-year-old shelter in Tajikistan, offering new insights into human evolution.

Therefore, whether Altamura’s population could have influenced modern humans remains to be determined. Furthermore, Buzi ...

The 3.2-million-year-old human ancestor known as Lucy rose to fame through an incredible combination of circumstances ...

Scientists believe individuals of the most recently discovered hominin group (the Denisovans) that interbred with modern day ...

Scientists believe individuals of the most recently discovered "hominin" group (the Denisovans) that interbred with modern day humans passed on some of their genes via multiple, distinct interbreeding ...