The intersection of technology and anthropology is helping us answer questions about our origins, but it's also giving us ...

Wild monkeys in West Africa can climb vertical tree trunks using foot flexibility scientists did not realize they possessed.

Combining archaeological evidence with ancient DNA and data on past climates shows us how long and winding the story of human ...

A self-proclaimed healthcare futurist, Jeffrey Charles Hardy, says that after millions of years, human evolution has stalled out. He believes we are in a state of suspended evolution before the second ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 years ...

The record of humanity is incomplete, but researchers discovered a well-preserved skull which calls into question assumptions ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A reconstruction of the crushed skull labelled Yunxian 2, which has features that are closer to species thought to have existed ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Human evolution might be more "bizarre" than we once thought, according ...

For more than a century, scientists have sought to reconstruct human evolution using diverse lines of evidence, including fossils, genetic variation across populations and ancient DNA. Building on ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Fifty years ago, a remarkable fossil was unearthed in the Afar Rift ...