A hidden force let humans smash a barrier that had trapped our ancestors for millions of years.

New DNA Breakthrough Is Changing What We Know About Human Origins ...

Recent advances in our understanding of human evolution challenge the way we currently name and classify our ancestors, ...

The human family tree may be due for a major rewrite. Researchers argue that Australopithecus and Paranthropus should be ...

Discover why some paleoanthropologists are calling for the reclassification of all human species and close relatives, like ...

The traditional labels Homo, Australopithecus and Paranthropus may no longer match the tangled relationships revealed by the ...

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how human-specific DNA changes shaped human evolution. It's just over a decade since ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

A new interdisciplinary review published in The Quarterly Review of Biology argues that red meat, once an essential component of human evolution, has become a significant threat to human health and ...

A new study could reshape human evolution by placing Australopithecus and Paranthropus within an expanded genus Homo.