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Modern human beings are the ultimate apex species, exerting dominance over our environment in a way that no other animal ever ...

At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

(Reuters) -Researchers have unearthed tooth fossils in Ethiopia dating to about 2.65 million years ago of a previously unknown species in the human evolutionary lineage, one that lived in the same ...

Our species, Homo sapiens, has been evolving for more than 300,000 years, but the story of human origins starts much earlier. Since evolving from the common ancestor that we share with our closest ...

A rare Homo habilis skeleton from Kenya reveals how early humans moved, climbed, and adapted more than two million years ago.

A new study suggests humans belong in an elite “league of monogamy,” ranking closer to beavers and meerkats than to ...

When researchers in China announced a possible new human species from a cave in Hebei province, they did more than add another name to our already crowded family tree. They introduced a population ...