A few years ago, Lee Berger almost died when squeezing into a cave system in the so-called Cradle of Humankind.

Animated three-dimensional illustrations present the evolution of mankind from the earliest animal in the earliest days of life on Earth.

South Africa has one of the world’s richest fossil records of hominins (humans and their fossil ancestors). But many misconceptions still exist regarding human evolution, and school textbooks contain ...

Why did humans evolve the eyes we have today? While scientists can't go back in time to study the environmental pressures that shaped the evolution of the diverse vision systems that exist in nature, ...