The findings have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers said.

Decades after a skull was unearthed in China’s Hubei Province, researchers said they suspect a much earlier and more complex ...

Researchers used sophisticated scanning and digital reconstruction techniques to determine the original shape of the skull, ...

Amid god-centered beliefs, some thinkers of ancient Greece wondered if life arose naturally, centuries before evolution became accepted.

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...

For decades, small grooves on ancient human teeth were thought to be evidence of deliberate tool use – people cleaning their teeth with sticks or fibres, or easing gum pain with makeshift “toothpicks” ...