TIME: Much of what you write about in the book involves the idea of “dispersal” as an evolutionary process that could ...

A recent study proposes a new paradigm for understanding the role of carrion in the subsistence of human populations ...

New fossil evidence from Ethiopia’s Afar region reveals that early humans evolved nearly two million years ago, hundreds of ...

For over a decade, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek has woven a tapestry of ...

After comparing shapes, depths, and pressure patterns, this study found that two different hominin species left footprints in ...

"The pace of change we’re seeing today is unlike anything we know of in the past 66 million years," said ecologist Jack Hatfield.

The extinct animal's face structure could help explain how vertebrates, including ourselves, evolved our distinctive look.

Creating human eggs from adult cells just got one step closer to reality. A technique used in cloning combined with fertilization and a bit of chemical coaxing caused human skin cells to produce eggs ...

Alexander Piel receives funding from the Salk/UCSD Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny and the Department of Human Origins, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. He ...

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human relative could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, researchers said. A cranium dubbed Yunxian 2 was found in the Yunxian region of ...

A newly discovered prehistoric land bridge between Turkey and Europe has added an “entirely new page” to the history of human migration. After conducting a two-week survey in 2022, a team of female ...