Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra.

Harvard evolutionary biologist Dr. Daniel E. Lieberman challenges modern fitness obsessions, suggesting humans evolved for ...

About 70,000 years ago in Africa, humans expanded into more extreme environments, a new study finds, setting the stage for ...

Molecular sleuthing has tied the more‑than‑146,000‑year‑old Harbin cranium, known as "Dragon Man," to this hidden branch of humanity.

Over a period of nine months, Ponzi went on to steal the modern equivalent of $250mn from thousands of investors, leading to ...

A Nature study shows Arabia was periodically lush over 8 million years, creating migration corridors for early humans and ...

Fred Smith, the indefatigable founder of FedEx and the man who more or less invented modern express logistics, passed away ...

Hidden for 80+ years, the Harbin skull has finally been identified as Denisovan using DNA and protein analysis.

Yet these primordial grave-diggers weren’t quite like us, and new research reveals that a young child from the world’s oldest ...

The new study, published in Cell by Qiaomei Fu and colleagues, is the first to definitively link a nearly complete human ...

The man charged with killing a prominent Minnesota lawmaker and wounding another could face the death penalty, something that ...