A fossil ape discovered in northern Egypt is reshaping the story of human evolution. The species, Masripithecus, lived about 17 to 18 million years ago and may sit very close to the ancestor of all ...

Scientists have discovered human fossils originating from around the time of one of evolution’s most decisive turning points. Unearthed in Morocco, the bones date to roughly the time when our ...

Jawbone fragments and teeth from a previously unknown species hint that the evolution of modern apes occurred in what's now ...

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At some point in our evolutionary history, our ancestors made the leap from primitive hominins to sophisticated modern humans, though anthropologists have yet to agree on when this happened. For some, ...

Many people today simply assume that our evolution has quietly ended with the development of the modern human. It's easy to think that medicine, science, and modern living have made us "perfect" or ...

Denisovans, a mysterious human relative, left behind far more than a handful of fossils—they left genetic fingerprints in modern humans across the globe. Multiple interbreeding events with distinct ...

The Trump Administration recently called out the Smithsonian Institution for pushing “one-sided, divisive political narratives,” leading GOP Sen. Jim Banks last week to introduce a bill prohibiting ...

Not every modern human has the same set of Neanderthal DNA, however; different people will, by chance, have inherited different fragments. But there are also some areas, termed “Neanderthal deserts,” ...