Archaeologists have found the oldest-known surviving examples of handheld wooden tools.

The chin is one of our most familiar features, yet scientists still debate why we evolved it. Here’s a breakdown of what we ...

A large comparative study of primate teeth shows that grooves once linked to ancient human tooth-picking can form naturally, while some common modern dental problems appear uniquely human.

A 5,500-year-old skeleton from Colombia has revealed the oldest known genome of the bacterium linked to syphilis and related ...

The hand stencil is more than 1,000 years older than the previous earliest evidence of rock art.

At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

Our evolved craving for cause and effect once ensured survival but now fuels misunderstanding. Learning to favor correlation ...

Long before humans became master hunters, our ancestors were already thriving by making the most of what nature left behind. New research suggests that scavenging animal carcasses wasn’t a desperate ...

Artificial intelligence allows tracing the evolution of genetic control elements in the developing mammalian cerebellum. An international research team led by biologists from Heidelberg University as ...

“What we can say with confidence is that heartworm evolution is far older and more complex than a simple story of parasites ...

A single ancient jawbone is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about humanity’s forgotten relatives.

Ancient bones discovered in a cave in Casablanca, Morocco, could fill in some of the blanks about human evolution. The cave, known as Grotte à Hominidés, contains assemblages of jawbones, teeth, and ...