Some of the smallest organisms might have influenced our own evolutionary path. A new study has found that the distribution of malaria in Africa in the last 70,000 years could hav ...

Faster than expected: Researchers found natural selection has been more active in recent human history, especially after farming began. Hundreds of gene shifts: The study identified 479 gene variants ...

Bronze Age acceleration: Ancient DNA analysis shows human evolution sped up dramatically during the Bronze Age, challenging earlier theories of evolutionary dormancy. Migration’s genetic impact: Large ...

Scientists have finally come face-to-face with an ancient human ancestor called Little Foot. A new digital reconstruction reveals the visage of one of our oldest close human relatives, researchers ...

“For over a hundred years, it was hypothesized that our ancestors lived in grassland savannahs and that this major ecosystem change drove human evolution, including the origins of bipedalism and ...

It is fair to say that the family tree of ancient humans is not written in stone. Just take the case of the Denisovans, the enigmatic ancient humans who were, until recently, known only from a few ...

In central China, scientists have spent over a decade excavating and studying an archaeological site where ancient humans butchered animals. Amidst bones, archaeologists found complex stone tools that ...