Ancient bones discovered in a cave in Casablanca, Morocco, could fill in some of the blanks about human evolution.

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A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

THE warped world of body brokers, where people who acquire and sell human cadavers, has become a multi-million-pound industry ...

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A 1.5-million-year-old skull fossil from Gona, Ethiopia now has a virtual face, thanks to digital reconstruction.

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This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

Noah Wyle and his castmates turned one harrowing day at an E.R. into an unforgettable season of television. Can they do it ...