Humans really do rule the world. We took over fast and far, more than any other wild vertebrates. We inhabit nearly every ...

Forget Survival Of The Fittest. Humans Conquered Our Planet By Sharing Ideas. In A Nutshell Humans spread across nearly every habitat on Earth in around 300,000 years, a feat that biology alone would ...

The museum’s groundbreaking Hall of Human Origins centers around the adaptations that set early humans apart Jack Tamisiea What does it mean to be human? This question, deceptively simple and imbued ...

Walking on two legs has long been considered a milestone in human evolution and one of our most defining characteristics.

The ancestors of humans started making tools about 3.3 million years ago. First they made them out of stone, then they switched to bone as a raw material. Until recently, the earliest clear evidence ...

In a recent review published in the journal Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, researchers discussed the role of climatic shifts and vegetation changes in driving the evolution within the subfamily ...

A million-year-old skull discovered in China could rewrite the history of human evolution. A new analysis of the skull published in Science suggests that our species may have emerged half a million ...

Human evolution is a story writ slow. It’s been about 3.8 billion years since life on Earth emerged and steadily began to spread its reach from the tidal pools to the oceans to ...

A breakthrough in human evolutionary research has finally revealed the place where Homo sapiens and Neanderthals first crossed paths. The discovery places the two ancient human species not in the ...

New research that decoded the evolution of mosquitoes’ feeding habits from DNA could shed light on the murky timeline of prehistoric human ancestors.

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 ...