Cancer does not develop overnight. It can take decades for cancer‐promoting changes in the genome to eventually lead to the ...

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

Images released ahead of a new BBC science series depict Homo floresiensis, Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis plus the ...

A new DNA model suggests humans didn't reach Australia until 50,000 years ago, but archaeological data disagrees.

New research revealing that ancient Africa's climate was unexpectedly rainy, challenging previous theories about human ...

While humans had long survived in savanna and forests, they shifted into everything from from dense rainforests to arid deserts in the period leading up to 50,000 years ago, developing what Hallett ...

More information: Ivan Colagè et al, An empirically-based scenario for the evolution of cultural transmission in the human lineage during the last 3.3 million years, PLOS One (2025).

In this video, I explain the difference between hominids and hominins, including the timeline of when the hominins split off from the hominids and the significance of this distinction. I cover the ...

The emergence of four-legged animals known as tetrapods was a key step in the evolution of many species today – including humans. Our new discovery, published today in Nature, details ancient fossil ...

These early humans are unlike any other group ever found. What sets the Juluren apart isn’t just their strange mix of traits. It's their unusually large brains, some over 1,700 cubic centimeters.