A growing number of discoveries are reshaping long-held ideas about human evolution, from unexpectedly early stone tools to ...

The work demonstrates the power of ancient DNA to illuminate human biology and medicine in addition to history. A massive ...

A recent study proposes a new paradigm for understanding the role of carrion in the subsistence of human populations throughout their evolution. Ana Mateos and Jesús Rodríguez, scientists at the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ancient DNA reveals how farming accelerated human evolution, driving genetic changes over the past 10,000 years.

When you think about evolution, what comes to mind? Certainly, things like opposable thumbs are one factor here; so too is ...

In pursuit of knowledge, the evolution of humanity ranks with the origins of life and the universe. And yet, except when an exciting find hits the headlines, palaeoanthropology and its related fields ...

ANTH copy 39088019968007 gift of Rusty Russell. "In this engaging exploration, archaeologist Ian Hodder departs from the two prevailing modes of thought about human evolution: the older idea of ...

Human aging is not what natural selection failed to prevent. It is what happens when selection simply has nothing left to act ...