Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to a new model for how intelligent life developed on Earth.

The origins of life on our planet remains one of science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ...

A recent study from the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) investigates how polyester microdroplets, potential precursors to modern cells, could form under realistic early Earth conditions.

Researchers Unearth 10,600-Yr-Old Spirit Cave Mummy’, Reveal Modern Humans Came to America Earlier Than Thought The genome ...

In the journal Nature Communications, Montana State University scientists in the College of Agriculture highlight fresh ...

New work offers insight into how early life adapted from a low-oxygen atmosphere to the one that exists today.

How life evolved is one of the central questions in science and has fascinated humans for centuries. Early Earth was undoubtedly a harsh environment, but we know surprisingly little about the ...

A Northumbria University researcher is part of an international team which has made a "groundbreaking" discovery that dramatically pushes back the date of early human ancestors' arrival in Europe. Dr ...

A Northumbria University researcher is part of an international team which has made a "groundbreaking" discovery that dramatically pushes back the date of early human ancestors' arrival in Europe.

A five-year excavation at the Mapu Tsho site in Xigaze City, Tibet, conducted between 2020 and 2024, revealed significant evidence of early human life. The Xizang Cultural Relics Protection Institute ...

For years, researchers believed that the world's oldest ochre mine, Ngwenya in Eswatini, was the only source of ochre pigment for early human communities. However, a groundbreaking new study published ...

Here are 20 facts about early human life. Almost 14,400 years ago, the early humans were snacking on food that doesn’t look all that much different from what we eat today. In northern Jordan, ...