This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

The Moroccan fossils now provide tangible evidence from this mysterious transitional period. What makes these fossils particularly significant is the precision with which they can be dated. The ...

Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to ...

Learn how precisely dated fossils from Morocco reveal a population with a mix of archaic and emerging traits, helping clarify ...

In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little Foot,” fossil an exquisitely preserved hominin found in South Africa’s ...

Scientists have reconstructed the head of an ancient human relative from 1.5 million year-old fossilized bones and teeth. But ...

Artificial intelligence has seen a huge surge of popularity in recent months, even years, and with programs like ChatGPT continuing to dominate headlines of the news cycle and other parts of life, A.I ...

Modern humans did not evolve from monkeys or any other animal that lives today. Humans continue to evolve but the traits we pass down aren't always for the species' betterment. "Survival of the ...