New research explains how scalp hair grows so long, and how its characteristics helped us thrive.

"Humans picked up some Neanderthal DNA through interbreeding, while the Neanderthal population, always fairly small, was ...

It was a massive, thrilling shift in the Jurassic Park paradigm. It was also both a generous invitation to future ...

The remains of extinct Homo erectus dredged from the seabed off Java, along with thousands of animal fossils, are revealing a long-lost ecosystem.

New findings by researchers at the University of Montpellier, the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in ...