Fossils from Germany’s Miocene era reveal Danuvius guggenmosi, an ape that walked upright 12 million years ago. With long ...

Humans developed large brains and flatter faces at an exceptionally quick rate compared to other apes, according to new research from UCL scientists. The study suggests that these rapid changes may ...

A global study of over 1,100 species reveals an evolutionary reason why females consistently live longer than males.

In many bird species, it’s the males who live longer. The researchers found support for this idea: in 72% of mammal species, females outlived males by about 12%. Meanwhile, in 68% of bird species, ...

(This is the third of a series of essays on the unique contributions of the humanities program at the University of Guam to the island and the wider Pacific region.) Every semester, when we begin a ...

We now have only the second high-quality genome from an ancient Denisovan human, which reveals there were more populations of ...

Fossil evidence from Ethiopia has rewritten human history, showing Australopithecus lived one million years earlier than ...

UCL scientists found that human skulls evolved much faster than those of other apes, reflecting the powerful forces driving ...

Humans evolved larger brains and flatter faces much faster than other apes, suggesting that intelligence shaped our skulls.

Humans evolved their unique skull shape—large brains and flat faces—at a much faster rate than any other ape species, ...

Humans and our ancestors have been exposed to lead for 2 million years, but the toxic metal may have actually helped our ...

An international team of researchers led by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig ...