A study confirms that Homo erectus, the direct ancestor of modern humans, arrived hundreds of thousands of years earlier than ...

The discovery of a new fossil has once again turned our understanding of human evolution on its head. This monumental find suggests that hominins may have ventured out of Africa much earlier than ...

Across disciplines that rarely share a headline, scientists are quietly revising the stories they once told with confidence about how humans evolved, how civilizations formed, and how secure our ...