Many people today simply assume that our evolution has quietly ended with the development of the modern human. It's easy to think that medicine, science, and modern living have made us "perfect" or ...

Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a ...

Learn about the most complete Homo habilis fossil ever found, and how this fossil is changing what we know about human ...

Groundbreaking research reveals that human microbes can trigger genetic brain activity in other species, suggesting our ...

The cave, known as Grotte à Hominidés, contains assemblages of jawbones, teeth, and vertebrae dating back to 773,000 years ...

Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in ...

The Moroccan fossils now provide tangible evidence from this mysterious transitional period. What makes these fossils particularly significant is the precision with which they can be dated. The ...

A collection of bones from Casablanca holds important new clues to the origins of modern humans and Neanderthals.

A 26-ft (8-m) deep excavation in Indonesia has revealed that humans and a hominin species that pre-dates humans used the same ...

Denisovans, a mysterious human relative, left behind far more than a handful of fossils—they left genetic fingerprints in modern humans across the globe. Multiple interbreeding events with distinct ...