It's long been thought our species was unique in its ability to adapt to harsh climates like bone-dry deserts or thick-set rainforests.

The work marks an important advance in researchers' ability to reconstruct ancient diets, because it involved developing a new method to look inside tooth enamel for evidence of eating ... For example ...

How did humans evolve into the big-brained, bipedal ape that we are today? This article examines the fossil evidence of our 6 million year evolution. Darwin's great insight, and the unifying ...

Our Human Evolution gallery explores the origins of Homo sapiens, tracing our lineage since it split ... The human lineage split from the chimpanzee lineage around seven million years ago. Fossil ...