By studying antelope fossils, researchers can revisit long-standing questions about how the Cradle of Humankind’s environment ...

Human evolution is a story writ slow. It’s been about 3.8 billion years since life on Earth emerged and steadily began to ...

A million-year-old skull from China, Yunxian 2, reshapes our understanding of human origins and ancient human relatives.

Lead exposure may have spelled evolutionary success for humans—and extinction for our ancient cousins—but other scientists ...