(CNN) — Researchers have used genetics to create the largest human family tree ever made, allowing individuals to find out who their distant ancestors were and where they lived, as well as exactly how ...

Bodies don't go into the pods. Rather, cremated human remains are placed in the biodegradable, plastic-derived urns, and then those urns get covered in soil. After that, a pre-existing tree gets ...

It’s long past time to stop thinking of humanity’s nearest relatives as forming a family tree. Our close relatives like the Neanderthals and Denisovans clearly interbred both with us and each other.

In 1990, a farmer in central China stumbled on a skull so battered it looked more like a pancake than a fossil. For decades, scientists squinted at the flattened bones of “Yunxian 2,” guessing it ...

Humans may associate scaling branches with childish behavior — classic monkeying around — but in truth, climbing trees is a big part of our collective story. Ancient bones unearthed in Africa go a ...

Trees have played an intimate and even dynamic role in the development of human history, especially on the African continent, said Wole Soyinka in a lecture on Monday. Soyinka, who is from Nigeria, ...