Studying human evolution involves piecing together scattered clues about how we survived against tough odds. One of the biggest mysteries is understanding how large or small ancient human populations ...

It’s considered to be one of the most decisive steps in human evolution. Now, scientists believe they have pinpointed when our ancestors made the transition from walking on all fours to standing on ...

A stretch of DNA can look static on a screen, just long rows of A, T, C and G. But buried in those letters are small changes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This artist rendering shows hands of early human ancestors, called Australopithecus sediba and Homo naledi, found in South Africa.

Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels over and draws its last breath. The carcass is soon set on by hyenas, who ...

Roughly 476,000 years ago, early human ancestors were already building wooden structures, far earlier than scientists thought ...

But they add one caveat. Someday, they say, the researchers must teach them how to get history from the ground. The quest for fossils of human ancestors began in earnest after Charles Darwin proposed ...

(Produced in partnership with Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey) Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey takes place 10 million years in the past with the player assuming control of a clan of our pre-human ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WASHINGTON (AP) — Our hands can reveal a lot ...

This artist rendering shows hands of early human ancestors, called Australopithecus sediba and Homo naledi, found in South Africa. The left images show photos of the bones, and the right images show ...