When our distant ancestors first traded nomadic life for farming, villages, and permanent homes, you might assume that the ...

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

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

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. If I tried to recap all the new fossils, new methods and ...

Some of the smallest organisms might have influenced our own evolutionary path. A new study has found that the distribution ...

A glass of milk can still mark a line through humanity. For most adults, drinking it brings discomfort because the body ...

(CNN) — Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to unravel in 2025. Analysis of DNA extracted from the fossil ...

Long before humans spread across the globe, a deadly disease may have quietly shaped where our ancestors lived—and even how we evolved. New research reveals that malaria didn’t just threaten early ...

The British geneticist Steve Jones has recently given a lecture at University College London entitled “Is human evolution over?” His answer to his own question is in the affirmative. I agree with ...

Imagine a creature nearly twice the size of a modern African elephant (which can weigh up to 6,000kg [13,000 lbs]). This was Elephas (Paleoxodon) recki, a prehistoric titan that roamed the landscape ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...