This overview traces the evolutionary timeline from the great apes to modern humans, explaining where hominids and hominins ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400 000 years earlier than thought and in Asia not Africa, a study said last Friday.

Mosquitoes haven’t always had a taste for human blood — partly because the tiny yet dangerous insects have been around a lot longer than humans. Pinpointing when mosquitoes shifted their preference to ...