The evolutionary success of our species may have hinged on minute changes to our brain biochemistry after we diverged from ...

“These weren’t modest differences,” said Adam D. Gordon, an anthropologist at the University at Albany and lead author of the ...

These new discovered dates by using a new dating method indicate that the fossils found at the Sterkfontein caves are not ...

The Skywalker family has been the 'royal family' of Star Wars from the beginning; here's their complete family tree from the ...

The Burgess Shale in British Columbia is renowned for its exceptional preservation of soft tissues in fossils, including ...

Long before evolution equipped them with the right teeth, early humans began eating tough grasses and starchy underground ...

When palaeoanthropologist Donald Johanson discovered a bone fragment at the Hadar fossil site in Ethiopia in 1974, he knew it was an extraordinary find, but little did he know just how much it ...