The story of human evolution begins millions of years ago in the heart of Africa, where our earliest ancestors diverged from ...

Homo sapiens: we’ve been through a lot these past 300,000 or so years. Now we have our own TV show.

The last places to be reached by humans were North and South America; our ancestors were in a spot in what is now New Mexico by 21,000 years ago and arrived at the tip of southern Chile by 14,000 ...

In this new series, Human, paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi reveals our incredible story across 300,000 years of human ...

For nearly a century, scientists have been puzzling over fossils from a strange and robust-looking distant relative of early ...

Scientists have uncovered ancient fossils, prehistoric artwork, and other clues to human evolution. Here are nine of the most revealing discoveries that have changed our understanding of our early ...

Humans have been getting infected by ancient bacteria and viruses for at least 37,000 years. Now, for the first time, ...

Today, the map of early human evolution is much more complicated, and Lucy is one of a panoply of human ancestors in a complex and bushy family tree stretching back some 7 million years. Lucy was ...

Human testicles are much smaller, in proportion, to some of our primate cousins. Evolution can tell us why. But the size of ...

Humans lost their ability to synthesize their own vitamin C because our ancestors had access to plenty of fruit.