There’s a reason why ancient wisdom never truly grows old. Long before science tried to trace the journey of life through fossils and genes, Indian philosophy had already told that story through ...

A 7.2-million-year-old femur found in Bulgaria reveals early signs of upright walking and reopens the debate on human origins.

An analysis of ancient and modern DNA suggests the extent of convergent evolution in different peoples around the world is even greater than we thought ...

For the first time, researchers have digitally reconstructed the facial fragments of the individual, who belonged to the Australopithecus genus ...

Scientists analyzed the urine of wild chimpanzees who'd feasted on fallen fruit to see how much alcohol they consumed from the fermented sugars.

The appendix has independently evolved at least 32 times across 361 mammalian species. What makes it an evolutionary darling ...

An international team of researchers has presented this week the analysis of a fossil discovered in Bulgaria that could ...

Growing research – including ancient DNA technology – is changing the picture of human evolution and how our ancestors ...

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

Geneticists have a better understanding of how prehistoric pairings unfolded, with new research suggesting they were mostly ...

Fasting can have a powerfully positive effect on health and lifespan — effects that can now be delivered in a supplement.

If more human females mated with Neanderthal males than the other way around, over thousands of years you would expect to see just what they found: more human DNA in Neanderthal X chromosomes and less ...