Bugs are a surprising source of high amounts of protein, but humans are often unwilling to eat them. The reason might be found in ancient DNA samples.

A new Tel Aviv University study challenges assumptions about the Neanderthal pelvis, finding that modern human males evolved a distinct walking mechanism. Men may want to blame biology for their ...

In fact, the first couple of Neanderthal finds were completely missed, as people simply weren’t able to recognize their significance. The earliest of these was unearthed in Belgium in 1829, yet it ...

Journalist Martin LeFevre contends that both progressive and conservative perspectives on human nature exacerbate global ...

They weigh just grams—yet they show that modern humans reached Eurasia 35,000 years earlier than previously thought.

Yohannes Haile-Selassie has a talent for spotting fossils, and has discovered clues to several branches of the human family tree.

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A team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences identified five Denisovan specimens inside a limestone cave in Yunnan Province — ...

Anthropologist Agustín Fuentes joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about human evolution. Are humans still ...

A new study finds Denisovans carried DNA from an unknown ancient lineage, revealing a hidden layer of human evolutionary ...

In the 1980s and 1990s, newspaper comic strips reached their peak as The Far Side and Calvin and Hobbes became just as popular, if not more so, than classics such as Peanuts. What Gary Larson created ...

An international team of researchers has reconstructed the possible appearance of one of the earliest representatives of Homo ...