Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering ...

The end result is a lifelike, science-backed rendering of this ancient human's appearance, offering the most realistic look at our Denisovan's ancestors to-date. For more on this story ...

Although not a direct ancestor, we share distant relatives ... published in Journal of Human Evolution. Paranthropus was a close fossil relative of ours which lived in Africa between about 1 ...

It’s suppertime in the Amazon of lowland Bolivia, and Ana Cuata Maito is stirring a porridge of plantains and sweet manioc over a fire smoldering on the dirt floor of her thatched hut, listening ...

Some of our species’ earliest ancestors may have spent a lot more time eating salad than steak. Diet has been a crucial component of human evolution, says Tina Lüdecke, a geochemist at the Max ...

"This method opens up exciting possibilities for understanding human evolution, and it has the potential to answer crucial questions, for example, when did our ancestors begin to incorporate meat ...

New research shows that ancient humans, Australopithecus, had a plant-based diet, challenging long-held meat-eating theories.

New research provides the first direct evidence that Australopithecus, an important early human ancestor that displayed ... brain development - during human evolution. Animal resources provide ...