A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool making, this year has given us a clearer picture of how and why humans evolved ...

Revolutionary fossil evidence from Ethiopia is challenging decades of scientific consensus about human origins. New discoveries suggest that the famous Lucy fossil, long considered a direct ancestor ...

Artificial Intelligence has learned the art of flattery. The result is tragic: we have taught machines to keep us stupid, ...

A newly reconstructed fossil face from Ethiopia reveals surprising complexity in early human evolution. By digitally fitting together teeth and fossilized bone fragments, researchers reconstructed a ...

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is retracing the path of human migration. More specifically, the scientific community's best guess for the likely path of early human migration. While walking ...

Shanda Group has entered a period of renewed visibility, with a series of incubated ventures coming to light over the past several months. At the center of this momentum is its founder, Tianqiao Chen, ...

After decades of excavation and debate, a new analysis argues that Little Foot — one of the most complete hominin fossils ...

Every living being must cope with a changing world—summer gives way to winter, one year it floods and the next is a drought.

In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little ...

Numerous studies have charted our waning ability to concentrate over the past quarter century; literacy rates and reading for ...