Geneticists find new clues in mankind’s sudden and mysterious love of milk
We’re carrying around a lot more genes from our caveman cousin than we ever knew
A nifty bit of respiratory design goes back a very long way
DNA from Spanish bones beats old record by almost 300,000 years
Our brutish forebears liked things tidy—so what’s wrong with you?
A rare find suggests that there were fewer prehuman species than we believe—and that has implications throughout the fossil record
Scientists long debated whether tool use or upright posture came first. Now they may have the answer
A discovery in an ancient Chinese lake bed pushes the origin of humans back — way back
Our highest and lowest processing regions explain the irresistible appeal of a song
A new study finds our most distant ancestor — a cool 65 million years back.