Imagine early humans meticulously crafting stone tools for nearly 300,000 years, all while contending with recurring ...

When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the ...

The very first humans millions of years ago may have been inventors, according to a discovery in northwest Kenya. Researchers ...

Human evolution is a story writ slow. It’s been about 3.8 billion years since life on Earth emerged and steadily began to ...

Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

A recent study proposes a new paradigm for understanding the role of carrion in the subsistence of human populations ...

In this 4.4-million-year-old skeleton, scientists may have found the missing step between climbing and walking.

In his new BBC show, Jim Al-Khalili journeys through hundreds of millions of years of brain evolution. Live Science spoke to him about what he learned along the way and how this knowledge sheds new ...

The findings of this study suggest that the first humans may have originated from apes that were accustomed to living in two ...

A group of scientists proposes that modern humans began their global migration from the southern coast of Africa, rather than eastern Africa. Leveraging marine resources and advanced tools, Homo ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may be the result of millions of years of evolution. Rapid neuronal evolution in humans is likely ASD’s genetic cause, new research suggests. Though autism can cause ...