South Africa has one of the world's richest fossil records of hominins (humans and their fossil ancestors). But many ...

Human testicles are much smaller, in proportion, to some of our primate cousins. Evolution can tell us why. But the size of ...

A new DNA model suggests humans didn't reach Australia until 50,000 years ago, but archaeological data disagrees.

For thousands of years, humans have selectively bred dogs to fulfill specific roles, ranging from guarding and hunting to ...

Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

Humans change the urban landscape with religious, cultural and political activities, which in turn can influence the ...

The placenta and the hormones it produces may have played a crucial role in the evolution of the human brain, while also ...

What can a tiny wasp with a rather gruesome parasitic life cycle teach us about evolution, behavior and human developmental ...

The study questions the long-held belief that northern Africa became arid around 3 million years ago, which coincides with ...

Maybe, with a little luck, he would make another discovery that would change the map of human evolution. A version of this story appears in the February 2025 issue of National Geographic magazine.

We looked at fossil teeth from hominins (humans and our closest extinct relatives) from the Omo Valley in Ethiopia, where we can see traces of more than two million years of human evolution, as well ...

Recent discoveries using lab-grown brain organoids, or "mini-brains," suggest that testosterone increases brain size while ...