Malaria may have shaped early human life across Africa far earlier than once thought, steering where people could safely live ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. If I tried to recap all the new fossils, new methods and ...

The oldest distinguishing feature between humans and our ape cousins is our ability to walk on two legs—a trait known as bipedalism. Among mammals, only humans and our ancestors perform this atypical ...

Scientists discover ancient single-celled ancestors still live on in human blood, revealing a 700-million-year evolutionary link hidden inside the immune system. Researchers at Kyoto University traced ...

Brain size and bipedalism are the most likely drivers of our species’ right-hand dominance, according to new research ...

Proteins extracted from six teeth of early humans residing in what is now China around 400,000 years ago provide new insights ...

A Harvard-led study analyzing nearly 16,000 ancient and over 6,400 modern genomes from West Eurasia has identified 479 genetic variants strongly influenced by natural selection over the past 10,000 ...

The human gut microbiome is home to trillions of different microbes, many of which are crucial to our health. For example, ...