Scientists studied the remains of a mysterious human relative called Homo naledi found deep in a South African cave and ...

For nearly 30 years, a landmark study shaped how scientists understood the relationship between brain and body size in ...

Walking on two legs has long been considered a milestone in human evolution and one of our most defining characteristics. Until now, researchers assumed that the first humans originated in Africa and ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. If I tried to recap all the new fossils, new methods and ...

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Understanding how laughter evolved can reveal the secrets of human speech In a Scientific First, Researchers Recovered ...

Neanderthals: The First Europeans (Sorry, Sapiens!) Homo sapiens may be the reigning champion of modern humanity, but when it comes to the European continent, we were far from the first on the scene.

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A fossil cranium, which is around 1 million years old and was initially ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Human newborns arrive remarkably underdeveloped. The reason lies in a deep evolutionary ...

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 ...