Ancient bones discovered in a cave in Casablanca, Morocco, could fill in some of the blanks about human evolution. The cave, known as Grotte à Hominidés, contains assemblages of jawbones, teeth, and ...

Many of the problems that plague people living in modern society, such as poor mental health and lifestyle-related diseases, are said to be the result of rapid technological advances and modernization ...

Humans have lived with fire for over a million years. Scientists now say burn injuries may have influenced human evolution and healing.

The evolutionary success of our species may have hinged on minute changes to our brain biochemistry after we diverged from the lineage leading to Neanderthals and Denisovans about half a million years ...

Scientists have reexamined a badly crushed skull discovered back in 1990 in Hubei Province, China — known as Yunxian 2 — and say its new reconstruction could force us to rethink long-accepted ideas ...

When did something like us first appear on the planet? It turns out there's remarkably little agreement on this question. Fossils and DNA suggest people looking like us, anatomically modern Homo ...

Modern humans and Neanderthals shared a common ancestor, lived side by side in parts of Eurasia, and even had children together, yet their faces ended up strikingly different. The contrast between our ...

Micronutrients, minerals that are part of the human diet in small amounts, may have influenced human evolution more than previously recognized. In a new study publishing September 10 in the Cell Press ...

Once overlooked, Morocco has emerged as a focal point of human prehistory, with new discoveries and a landmark report ...