Humans are far closer to meerkats and beavers for levels of exclusive mating than we are to most of our primate cousins, ...

Human beings have been at the center of ecological change on Earth for thousands of years. But as history shows, no species ...

A study by University of Liverpool researchers reveals that the species hardest to detect—those rarely seen, recorded, or ...

One possible member of the new species H. juluensis isn’t a newcomer to science by any stretch. Denisovans—first identified in 2010 via DNA extracted from a young girl’s fingerbone found in ...

Human faces are famously flatter than those of other primates. Neanderthals, by contrast, had prominent, projecting midfaces ...

A foot fossil found in Ethiopia belonged to an ancient human. The finding could knock one of the most famous names in human evolution from her spot on the family tree.

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Many known hominin fossils defy species classification, with the most famous example being the ...