A new digital reconstruction of the face of an early Australopithecus specimen helps add details about the origins of our own ...

Little Foot” is the most complete Australopithecus fossil ever found. And now we finally have an idea of what this group of ...

Genomic analysis shows that interbreeding between female Neanderthals and human males was less common than the opposite ...

New research reveals that ancient interbreeding between humans and Neanderthals shaped our modern human DNA - especially on the X chromosome.

Discover the latest news, features and articles about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ...

Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago. But we ...

The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia.

Ancient DNA is turning human evolution into a crime scene reconstruction, and one of the prime suspects is a herpesvirus that quietly slipped into our chromosomes and never left. By tracing this viral ...