Our story began long before Homo sapiens—through apes, early primates, and ancient mammals that survived global extinctions and shifting continents. This documentary traces every key step across 65 ...

For decades, the dominant theory in human evolution suggested that modern humans descended from a single ancestral lineage in Africa. However, groundbreaking new research from the University of ...

Scientists find genetic mutation, millions of years ago. Oct. 12, 2011 — -- About three million years ago human predecessors embarked on a new course that would forever alter the evolution of our ...

A lost chapter in human evolution has been revealed after an analysis of modern DNA found that we come from not one but two ancestral populations—ones that drifted apart and later reconnected long ...

Saliva is a bodily fluid most of us take for granted despite the significant roles it plays: aiding in digestion, maintaining ...

Humans were living in rainforests roughly 150,000 years ago, some 80,000 years earlier than was previously thought—and may have been an important center for early human evolution. This is the ...

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors to modern humans, researchers now see a tangled, branching tree with ...

An ancient skull unearthed in China’s Hubei Province may push back the emergence of the human species by 400,000 years Peerapon Boonyakiat/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty A human skull found in 1990 ...

A new study reveals some of the crucial molecular steps on the path to bipedalism. By Carl Zimmer Charles Darwin unveiled his theory of evolution in 1859, in “On the Origin of Species.” But it took ...