A single ancient jawbone is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about humanity’s forgotten relatives.

Artificial intelligence allows tracing the evolution of genetic control elements in the developing mammalian cerebellum. An international research team led by biologists from Heidelberg University as ...

Archaeologists in Greece have discovered 430,000-year-old handheld wooden tools, the oldest surviving examples of their kind ...

At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

Industries are moving from automation solutions to autonomous operations, creating an incredible opportunity to improve ...

A robotic hand developed at EPFL surpasses the limits of human dexterity with a dual-thumbed, reversible-palm design that can ...

Paleoanthropologists have announced the world's most complete skeleton of Homo habilis, a human ancestor that lived more than 2 million years ago in northern Kenya. The collection of fossil bones has ...

A seven-million-year-old fossil may mark the moment our ancestors first stood up and walked.

Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in Africa’s fossil record of human origins. By Franz Lidz Researchers on Wednesday ...

Fossils unearthed in Morocco from a little-understood period of human evolution may help scientists resolve a long-standing mystery: Who came before us? Three jawbones, including one from a child, ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

Human evolution is explained through branching lineages rather than a simple linear progression. Fossils, genetics, and archaeology together reveal how multiple human species emerged, interacted, and ...