Humans are the only primates that run nearly naked under the sun. Here’s how this biological tradeoff reshaped how our ...

Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a ...

Learn about the most complete Homo habilis fossil ever found, and how this fossil is changing what we know about human ...

The cave, known as Grotte à Hominidés, contains assemblages of jawbones, teeth, and vertebrae dating back to 773,000 years ...

Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

The Moroccan fossils now provide tangible evidence from this mysterious transitional period. What makes these fossils particularly significant is the precision with which they can be dated. The ...

Many people today simply assume that our evolution has quietly ended with the development of the modern human. It's easy to think that medicine, science, and modern living have made us "perfect" or ...

A collection of bones from Casablanca holds important new clues to the origins of modern humans and Neanderthals.

Bonobo evolution reveals bonding and group cohesion in response to threats, favoring paths to finding peace instead of ...