The international research team, which included CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), discovered that ...

Anthropologist Christopher Bae has recently suggested we add two new species of ancient human to our family tree. The plans ...

A million-year-old human skull found in China suggests that our species, Homo sapiens, began to emerge at least half a million years earlier than we thought, researchers are claiming in a new study.

Scientists have discovered a 3.5 million-year-old skull in Kenya that may force them to rethink the central place of the fossil nicknamed "Lucy" in the human evolutionary tree. The skull was ...

Human flexibility in shoulders and elbows originated from ancient apes' need for safe tree descent. A new study reveals chimpanzees, unlike monkeys, used their upper limbs as a braking system, ...

In the Amazon forest, human disturbances are now changing which trees grow, how they work, and how deep their evolutionary ...