In the 1890s, Eugène Dubois conducted pivotal excavations in Java that unearthed Java Man, a groundbreaking fossil that ...

The time has come to reconsider an outdated understanding of human evolution: it was ...

The story of Charles Darwin’s life. His theory of evolution changed the way we understood our place in the world.

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. If I tried to recap all the new fossils, new methods and ...

Humans really do rule the world. We took over fast and far, more than any other wild vertebrates. We inhabit nearly every corner of the world, and can thrive in deserts, tropical rainforests and even ...

A new Yale-led study provides one of the most detailed and comprehensive analyses to date of genetic variation in human ...