The more we discover about our species' family tree, the harder it becomes to pinpoint when exactly Homo sapiens emerged, ...

Are humans the only species to drive another to extinction? Tom Ruppel | Dixon, California ...

Africa, these bones are from a species of hominid but they don’t seem to fit in the current timeline. This species has ...

Last year, speculative fiction author Ray Nayler published "The Mountain in the Sea," his first novel, depicting a not-too-distant future in which humankind is faced with an awe-inspiring (and ...

At least seven human species lived at the same time, for tens of thousands of years. Our ancestors began to move out of Africa around 60,000 years ago and these migrations coincided with the other ...

In 1993, a search for extraterrestrial life, a transmission's received, detailing an alien DNA structure, along with instructions on how to splice it with human DNA. The result is Sil, a sensual ...

Some hominoid species from this period exhibit traits that are typical of humans but are not seen in the other living apes, leading paleoanthropologists to infer that these fossils represent early ...

The most primitive hominid yet found, this species has more chimpanzee-like features than any other human ancestor. Ardipithecus ramidus may have walked upright. Other fossils discovered with A.

The skull fragments, teeth, jaws and other remains unearthed at different sites across the country are clearly remnants of archaic hominins — the formal name for species in the human lineage ...

Humans are notorious for killing our own kind. But are we the worst? Not even close, according to a recent study, published in Nature, that examined over 1,000 mammalian species. Follow Tech ...

Discoveries in the past two decades have added new branches to the human family tree, including species such as the hobbit-like Homo floresiensis and the powerfully built Homo naledi. A pinkie ...