At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

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Modern human beings are the ultimate apex species, exerting dominance over our environment in a way that no other animal ever ...

(Reuters) -Researchers have unearthed tooth fossils in Ethiopia dating to about 2.65 million years ago of a previously unknown species in the human evolutionary lineage, one that lived in the same ...

Our species, Homo sapiens, has been evolving for more than 300,000 years, but the story of human origins starts much earlier.

A new study suggests humans belong in an elite “league of monogamy,” ranking closer to beavers and meerkats than to ...

This academic has theorized about what would happen if humans became extinct and reveals who our successor would be.

Scientists have revealed the most complete skeleton yet of our 2 million-year-old ancestor Homo habilis.

When researchers in China announced a possible new human species from a cave in Hebei province, they did more than add another name to our already crowded family tree. They introduced a population ...