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, ...

Some of the smallest organisms might have influenced our own evolutionary path. A new study has found that the distribution of malaria in Africa in the last 70,000 years could hav ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists analyze 22,000 genomes documenting hundreds of genetic changes due to natural selection over the past 10,000 years ...

Ancient humans crossing the Bering Strait into the Americas carried more than tools and determination—they also carried a genetic legacy from Denisovans, an extinct human relative. A new study reveals ...

Scientists in China discovered that ancient humans were making surprisingly advanced stone tools during a harsh ice age ...

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 central China, scientists have spent over a decade excavating and studying an archaeological site where ancient humans butchered animals. Amidst bones, archaeologists found complex stone tools that ...