The record of humanity is incomplete, but researchers discovered a well-preserved skull which calls into question assumptions ...

Combining archaeological evidence with ancient DNA and data on past climates shows us how long and winding the story of human ...

From rigid brow ridges to expressive arches, your eyebrows tell a story of how human faces evolved to signal emotion, identity and social intent. We tend to forget that our eyebrows are even there.

The discovery of a human facial fragment aged over one million years represents the oldest known face in western Europe and confirms the region was inhabited by two species of human during the early ...

A new theoretical paper suggests that human cognitive and linguistic evolution was driven by early humans’ ability to be ...

Understanding the differences between Neanderthal and modern human faces sheds light on our own evolution. Thanks to modern technology (and based on skull remains), we can now reconstruct a likely ...

Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary shift—driven not by genes, but by culture. "Human evolution seems to be changing ...

South Africa has one of the world’s richest fossil records of hominins (humans and their fossil ancestors). But many misconceptions still exist regarding human evolution, and school textbooks contain ...