Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis ...

A 4.4-million-year-old Ardipithecus fossil named "Ardi" shows early humans walked upright, keeping ape-like climbing ...

The findings of this study suggest that the first humans may have originated from apes that were accustomed to living in two ...

For decades, Paranthropus boisei, an early hominin that roamed eastern Africa a million years ago, was known for its gigantic ...

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.

A fossilised human skull unearthed in China and dated to around one million years ago may radically change what we know about the origins of our species. Researchers say the analysis suggests Homo ...

Scientists digitally reconstructed a 1 million-year-old skull unearthed in China. The analysis suggests it may have belonged to an ancestor of the Denisovans and “Dragon Man.” ...

A 146,000-year-old skull recovered near Harbin, China, by scientists decades ago has now been found to belong to the Denisovans, an extinct relation to modern humans who lived in Siberia and East Asia ...

In his new BBC show, Jim Al-Khalili journeys through hundreds of millions of years of brain evolution. Live Science spoke to ...

Our brains evolved for complex thought and language - but the same genes that made us smarter may have increased mental illness risk.

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A badly crushed cranium unearthed decades ago from a riverbank in central China that once defied classification is now shaking up the human family tree, according to a new analysis. Scientists ...