If this Africa-wide theory were true, then early humans must have figured out how to live in many environments beyond ...

In the 8 million years or so since the earliest ancestors of humans diverged from the apes, at least a dozen humanlike species, called hominids, have lived on Earth. And this list is getting longer.

A human-specific NOVA1 gene variant may have influenced the emergence of spoken language. When introduced into mice, it ...

Eventually the focus of human-origins research moved from southern to East Africa and the name of Louis Leakey began to appear in the scientific record, although in those days of less-thorough sub ...