Plus: Neuralink's second trial with a human patient appears to have been a success This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the ...

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new ...

Learn how genomes from 28 ancient individuals show that Homo sapiens lived in southern Africa in near isolation for hundreds ...

The study of human origins provides a fundamental narrative for our biological and cultural evolution. By combining fossil evidence with archaeological and palaeoenvironmental data, we can trace the ...

With an opposable big toe resembling a human thumb, the fossilized Burtele foot suggested its owner was a skilled climber, ...

A composite view of the Earth constructed by NASA from multiple satellite images Editor at Large Human evolution is a story writ slow. It’s been about 3.8 billion years since life on Earth emerged and ...

We have Palaeolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology." That’s a quote from Edward O. Wilson, the ...

With the help of newly identified bones, an enigmatic 3.4-million-year-old hominin foot found in 2009, is assigned to a ...