In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new ...

Human evolution is often told as a tidy story of adaptation, yet some of our most familiar body parts still defy ...

An ancient, shared set of human-specific genes underwent changes in a geographically isolated population after around 300,000 years ago, scientists say.

Many of the ancient southern Africans, including those who lived between about 10,200 and 1,400 years ago, "fall outside the ...

Satellite megaconstellations are increasingly impacting astronomical observations. Bright satellite streaks are compromising ...

Learn how genomes from 28 ancient individuals show that Homo sapiens lived in southern Africa in near isolation for hundreds ...

Newfound fossils in modern-day Ethiopia suggest that the mysterious foot belonged to a recently named species, Australopithecus deyiremeda. The finding could alter the story of human evolution ...

In a groundbreaking discovery in early human evolution, scientists revealed that, using the “Burtele ...

On an expedition in the Awash Valley in Ethiopia, two anthropologists uncovered the bones of a 3.2 million-year-old human ...

Scientists have discovered that a mysterious foot found in Ethiopia belonged to a previously unknown ancient relative similar ...

How far back in evolutionary history does kissing go? Through phylogenetic analysis, an international team of scientists ...

Modern humans did not evolve from monkeys or any other animal that lives today. Humans continue to evolve but the traits we pass down aren't always for the species' betterment. "Survival of the ...