New research that decoded the evolution of mosquitoes’ feeding habits from DNA could shed light on the murky timeline of prehistoric human ancestors.

A 7.2-million-year-old femur found in Bulgaria reveals early signs of upright walking and reopens the debate on human origins.

An analysis of ancient and modern DNA suggests the extent of convergent evolution in different peoples around the world is even greater than we thought ...

Discover the latest news, features and articles about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ...

Little Foot, a 3.67 million-year-old human ancestor, is getting a digital facial reconstruction after her skull was crushed ...

A new digital reconstruction of the face of an early Australopithecus specimen helps add details about the origins of our own ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A reconstruction of the crushed skull labelled Yunxian 2, which has features that are closer to species thought to have existed ...

Human evolution is a story writ slow. It’s been about 3.8 billion years since life on Earth emerged and steadily began to spread its reach from the tidal pools to the oceans to ...

Where do we come from and how did we evolve into the beings and bodies we are today? The new book "Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution" argues for a better ...

Many people hold the view that evolution in humans has come to a halt. But while modern medicine and technologies have changed the environment in which evolution operates, many scientists are in ...

Distinct human populations living on separate continents have followed largely similar patterns of evolution since the onset of the Neolithic period, according to a new study. This suggests that, ...

Fungi have quietly shaped the trajectory of human civilization, from the diets of Paleolithic foragers to the beer in modern glasses and the experimental psychiatric drugs now in clinical trials. The ...