From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

A new study shows monkeys can perceive and sync to a musical beat, challenging assumptions about rhythm, evolution, and ...

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

Immense progress has been made over many years of archaeology and study into human evolution, and exciting new information has been uncovered via archaeology.

Human evolution is often told as a tidy story of adaptation, yet some of our most familiar body parts still defy ...

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new ...

ANTH copy 39088019968007 gift of Rusty Russell. "In this engaging exploration, archaeologist Ian Hodder departs from the two prevailing modes of thought about human evolution: the older idea of ...

Amna Nawaz: We often talk about human origins as the evolution of man, but what if we saw it as the evolution of woman? A new book argues for a better understanding of our beginnings, with critical ...

In 1758, Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus gave humans a scientific name: Homo sapiens, which means "wise human" in Latin. Although Linnaeus grouped humans with other apes, it was English biologist ...

John Gowlett receives funding from PAST Africa and Wenner-Gren Foundation, and his work has previously been supported by The Leverhulme Trust. He is associated with a new series of podcasts on human ...