Prehistoric humans in Africa may have avoided areas infested with malaria-spreading mosquitoes, a new study suggests.

New research challenges long-standing assumptions about human evolution, revealing that natural selection has been more ...

The story of human evolution is far from a straight line — it’s a complex web of species, adaptations, and interconnections.

There is something almost comforting about the old, schoolbook version of human origins. It had a single ancestral population ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...

(Reuters) -In 1990, an ancient human skull was unearthed in China's Hubei Province that was so badly deformed during fossilization that it was hard to gauge its significance. A new analysis now ...

New 3D analysis of a German skull clears up decades of confusion, placing this human firmly in the modern family tree.

Over the past 10,000 years, evolution in West Eurasia has selected for light skin, red hair and resistance to HIV in humans, according to a new study.

Angela Pelster is well-recognized in the literary community for her work. On April 14, she published her collection of essays ...