New research suggests Neanderthals didn't face a sudden extinction but were gradually absorbed into the growing human ...

New discoveries in the Arabian Peninsula and Levant show that Homo sapiens began leaving Africa far earlier than the ...

Humans weren’t just along for the ride in prehistoric Europe – they were already changing the world around them. Long before farming or permanent villages, small groups of hunter-gatherers were ...

SATURDAY, Nov. 1, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Two small changes in human DNA may have played a big role in helping our ancestors walk upright, researchers say. The study, recently published in the journal ...

In humans, cartilage-forming genes switched on in new regions, prompting horizontal growth, while bone-forming genes activated later, slowing the hardening process. Because primates share most of the ...

Research fellow, Department of Geography, Archaeology & Environmental Studies, University of the Witwatersrand; Research Associate, African Centre for Coastal Palaeoscience, Nelson Mandela University ...

Ardi is the oldest known partial skeleton of a hominin and shows foot features that are transitioning from vertical climbing to bipedal walking. While Ardi has the primitive grasping big toe of the ...

Two small genetic changes reshaped the human pelvis, setting our early ancestors on the path to upright walking, scientists say. One genetic change flipped the ilium — the bone your hands rest on when ...