Deep in a South African cave, a revolutionary discovery is challenging everything we thought we knew about human evolution.

Imagine the tree of life. The tip of every branch represents one species, whether you're talking about humans, E ... correspondent Jonathan Lambert joins Short Wave to talk about LUCA: What ...

Neanderthals had short, stocky bodies with long arms ... which previous researchers had found to contain slightly more ape-like genes than modern-day humans. The tree model pioneered by the Big Data ...

For example, you can compare the tree's life to a human life. When you think about the lifespan of a human, say someone who lived a long life of eighty years, and juxtapose that with the 260-year ...

Scientists have identified a new pod of ancient people who lived near the land bridge between North America and South America ...