On Valentine’s Day in 2018, a team of scientists walked across a flat expanse in the badlands of northeastern Ethiopia, scanning the ground for fossils. An eagle-eyed field assistant, Omar Abdulla, ...

Researchers have identified tiny genetic “switches” that appear to play a surprisingly large role in human language ability.

Dinosaurs 'He began to cry, and almost fell to the floor': The fluffy fossil that finally showed the world that birds are dinosaurs Neuroscience The brain's memory center doesn't start as a blank ...

In the dry, rugged badlands of Ethiopia’s Afar Region, a team of scientists has uncovered fossils that could change how you picture human evolution. These finds, dating back between 2.6 and 2.8 ...

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 ...

Scientists retrieved proteins from six teeth unearthed in China that reveal a potential link between Homo erectus and later ...

No matter where you are in the world, the humans living there are about 90 percent right-handed while the remaining 10 ...

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 ...