Anthropologist and author David Samson examines how the story of human sleep unfolded in his new book, “The Sleepless Ape.” ...

People might often claim (or disprove) the idea that humans evolved from apes. The reality, though, is that evolution isn't ...

Walking on two legs has long been considered a milestone in human evolution and one of our most defining characteristics. Until now, researchers assumed that the first humans originated in Africa and ...

In 2001, researchers unearthed a scattering of fossils beneath the windswept dunes of the Djurab Desert of northern Chad. The remains were later identified as belonging to an extinct species, ...

Based on Coll Macià's upper-bound generation interval of about 30 years, there have been at least 10,000 generations of ...

(CNN) — Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long archaeology project in northeastern Ethiopia, indicate that two different kinds of hominins, or human ancestors, lived in the same ...

A new study of wrist bones suggests human ancestors may have shared a knuckle-walking past with chimpanzees and gorillas.

Even tiny muscles around the ears hint at our evolutionary past. In many mammals, tiny ear muscles allow the outer ear (pinna ...

No matter where you are in the world, the humans living there are about 90 percent right-handed while the remaining 10 ...

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Blood cells carry a deep evolutionary history. A new analysis suggests their earliest ancestors were macrophage-like cells ...