A stunning discovery buried deep inside a cave for 1.8 million years is rewriting the story of human evolution.

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. The human body is full of evolutionary compromises. The loss of the tail may be one of the ...

It is generally accepted by archaeologists that modern humans originated in Africa and dispersed worldwide, while other ...

Humans take nearly 18 to 25 years to reach full maturity, far longer than most mammals. This slow human growth is driven by ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Humans are the only primates that run nearly naked under the sun. Here’s how this biological ...

Humans are the only species with a chin — a feature absent from even our closest relatives. Indeed, it's such a unique anatomical quirk that it's one of the main traits anthropologists use to identify ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. If I tried to recap all the new fossils, new methods and ...

Food has shaped human history in more ways than most people realize. Over thousands of years, they may also have changed the ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you'd like an expert to answer, send it to CuriousKidsUS@theconversation.com. If evolution is real, then why is it not ...

In a first-of-its-kind finding, researchers at University of Iowa Health Care discovered that specific genetic sequences have an outsized impact on humans' language abilities and that these sequences ...