For most of human history, green eyes didn’t exist. Understanding why they do now means rethinking what we know about ...

Chinese scientists obtain the first molecular evidence of interbreeding between our ancestor ‘Homo erectus’ and the ...

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

There is something almost comforting about the old, schoolbook version of human origins. It had a single ancestral population ...

Long before humans spread across the globe, a deadly disease may have quietly shaped where our ancestors lived—and even how we evolved. New research reveals that malaria didn’t just threaten early ...

Human babies arrive with 100 extra bones for the same reason birth is the most dangerous event in mammalian life. Both facts ...

Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains, Siberia is where the first evidence of Denisovans was found. (rusak/iStock/Getty Images ...

When people imagine the earliest human tools, they usually picture weapons. Stone handaxes, sharpened spears and heavy clubs ...

Miners in Zambia unearthed the Broken Hill skull in 1921, a fossil initially baffling scientists with its mix of modern and ...

For most of history, banking felt formal, distant, and highly structured. People walked into large buildings with marble ...