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 ...

The stone tools were found at the Lingjing archaeological site in central China. An early human species called Homo juluensis ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral ...

Brain size can matter across the broad sweep of primate evolution but among humans isn't the best way to estimate ...

The latest research on a Neanderthal infant from Amud Cave in Israel is giving a clearer picture of how different early development may have been in o.

Prehistoric humans in Africa may have avoided areas infested with malaria-spreading mosquitoes, a new study suggests.

Since the early 20th century, people’s skulls have got rounder and their jaws have got wider, probably because of changes in ...

Specific genomic regions that seem to play a role in human language development evolved hundreds of thousands of years ago, ...

Nearly 800,000 years ago, early humans gathered along the shores of a lush lake in what is now northern Israel. Here, they returned again and again, hunting large animals, cooking fish over controlled ...

You may not know that our ancestors hibernated during the winter months. Why did we evolve out of this biologically prolific ...

Increasing evidence suggests that our species emerged through interactions between populations living in different parts of Africa, rather than from a single birthplace. Until now, however, most ...

The device could help address multiple neurological conditions if it proves successful. One early use could be delivering gentle electrical stimulation to damaged brain or spinal cord cells to ...