The dating of stone tools in China puts members of the Homo genus there more than 2 million years ago.

The function of early hominins’ enlarged brow ridges, and their reduction in size in Homo sapiens, have puzzled paleoanthropologists for decades.

A study of Shuar children in Ecuador provides a window into how the human body responds to infection in the sorts of conditions that shaped our species’ evolution.

Three members of a gene family called NOTCH2NL may have been involved in the evolution of humans’ big cortex.

Analyses of more than 300 ancient human genomes show that Hepatitis B virus has infected humans for at least 4,500 years and has much older origins than modern viral genomes would suggest.

Humans living in higher latitudes tend to have a variant of a gene involved in sensing cold temperatures, but it comes with a cost.  

The adaptation gives better endurance to the Bajau people, known as sea nomads, by increasing spleen size and, in turn, boosting the number of oxygenated red blood cells when diving.  

An 88,000-year-old finger bone places human ancestors in Arabia earlier than previously believed.

Researchers find that modern human populations carry distinct sets of genes from the extinct hominin species.