luzonensis, H. longi, and H. juluensis highlight how new perspectives are unraveling complexities in the human evolutionary tree. For decades, researchers lumped eastern Asian hominin fossils into ...

This week, meet a big-brained ancient human relative, hear a meteorite as it lands on Earth, spot a tiny kangaroo-like marsupial, and more.

New research uncovers how evolution and improved living conditions are accelerating men's growth more than women's.

The three-dimensional shape of a protein can be used to resolve deep, ancient evolutionary relationships in the tree of life, ...

Researchers have innovatively merged protein structural data with genetic sequences to construct evolutionary trees, ...

The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage, a potential catalyst for advances ...

Lucy, an early human ancestor, could run upright but much slower than modern humans. New simulations show that muscle and ...

The three-dimensional shape of a protein can be used to resolve deep, ancient evolutionary relationships in the tree of life, ...

Scientists previously knew from fossil remains that these two extinct branches of the human evolutionary tree – called Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei – lived about the same time in the ...

A study in June by Elodie Freymann and colleagues collected plant extracts from 13 species of trees and herbs in ... via Getty Images Often in human evolution, scientists only focus on the ...

Ancient Chinese fossils may belong to a new human species, Homo juluensis, with large brain sizes, challenging traditional ...