"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Although only one species of hominin (a tribe of the subfamily Homininae) exists on the planet today—good ...

When researchers in China announced a possible new human species from a cave in Hebei province, they did more than add another name to our already crowded family tree. They introduced a population ...

Biologists are quietly rewriting what it means to be alive, and the human body has become one of their strangest frontiers. Inside our cells and microbiomes, researchers are uncovering entities that ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dubai has launched the world’s first icon-based classification system to represent the level of human–machine collaboration in the process of producing ...

In the dry, rugged badlands of Ethiopia’s Afar Region, a team of scientists has uncovered fossils that could change how you picture human evolution. These finds, dating back between 2.6 and 2.8 ...