This video traces the long evolutionary path from the first primates about 85 million years ago to modern Homo sapiens. Kayleigh moves through primate suborders, New World and Old World monkeys, apes, ...

Homo habilis has long been described as the first species in the Homo genus, but its place in human evolution remains controversial. Fossils from Tanzania and Kenya show a mix of humanlike and ...

A new study, published July 6, 2026, in the journal Nature Communications, suggests that two of the best-known trends in ...

Hundreds of hominin fossils reveal that human body size remained stable for ages before a sharp increase in early members of ...

A timeline of genetic changes in millions of years of human evolution shows that variants linked to higher intelligence appeared most rapidly around 500,000 years ago, and were closely followed by ...