All families have their own quirks and habits, but one group of relatives has such a unique trait that scientists have ...

Scientists have suspected that modern humans have more genes to digest starch than our hunter-gatherer ancestors, but the amylase locus of the genome is hard to study. Researchers have now developed ...

Ancient humans are said to have evolved to leave the trees, where our primate ancestors lived, in favour of open grassy ...

With the rise of AI models and automated bots, we find out whether there is any weight to the idea that the internet is now ...

Beyond gene-edited babies: the possible paths for tinkering with human evolution Editing human embryos ... a rare earth metal that’s used today in all sorts of devices, from speakers to wind ...

An analysis of around a dozen teenagers who lived during the Paleolithic reveals that they hit puberty around the same time ...

When the researchers studied the remains of hunter gatherers who lived up to 6,000 years ago, they discovered that knee osteoarthritis was probably not a problem at all back then.

The evolution of bones in primates' knees could have implications for how humans evolved to walk upright, a new study has ...

Our Human Evolution gallery explores the origins of Homo sapiens ... 100,000 years ago and another to around 60,000 years ago. Outside of Africa, we are all descendants of those who left in that ...

American private space company SpaceX launched the civilian Polaris Dawn space mission, four people to spend five days in ...

This development has come at a time when there is a growing sense that linking the past with the present can support the ...