A new digital reconstruction of the face of an early Australopithecus specimen helps add details about the origins of our own ...

Discover the latest news, features and articles about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ...

New research reveals that ancient interbreeding between humans and Neanderthals shaped our modern human DNA - especially on the X chromosome.

Little Foot” is the most complete Australopithecus fossil ever found. And now we finally have an idea of what this group of ...

The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia.

Genomic analysis shows that interbreeding between female Neanderthals and human males was less common than the opposite ...

Genetic information from the "Dragon Man" skull has linked the fossil, found in China, to the Denisovans. - Hebei GEO University Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60 ...

This shift, researchers say, marks a climatic tipping point—and it may have shaped the evolution of our species. “Things were ...

In 2021, scientists made a breakthrough when they classified a 140,000-year-old skull from Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, as ...

Could a Moroccan cave hold a crucial piece of the puzzle of human origins? Hominin fossils dating back 773,000 years discovered in the country are bringing new evidence to the debate about the last ...

Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to unravel in 2025. Analysis of DNA extracted from the fossil electrified the ...