Modern human beings are the ultimate apex species, exerting dominance over our environment in a way that no other animal ever ...

A team of researchers at University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences has proposed the introduction of a new human ...

(Reuters) -Researchers have unearthed tooth fossils in Ethiopia dating to about 2.65 million years ago of a previously unknown species in the human evolutionary lineage, one that lived in the same ...

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

A new study suggests humans belong in an elite “league of monogamy,” ranking closer to beavers and meerkats than to ...