Modern humans are often seen as the pinnacle of evolution and the only ones to have grown and developed over centuries. But in evolutionary terms, not long ago, we shared the planet with a number of ...

Maybe you've seen the T-shirts or the mugs, the silhouette of an ape standing up straighter and straighter, finally morphing into a modern coffee-drinking man. Scientists have long known human ...

Until now, at least 14 different species have been assigned to the genus Homo since it emerged in Ethiopia some 2.8 million years ago, revealing branching evolutionary stories of survival, intermixing ...