Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ...

It wasn’t the size of human brains that distinguished people from apes, he theorized, but the way they were organized. He ...

The story of human evolution just took a dramatic turn. According to a groundbreaking study published in Nature, modern humans may have inherited 20% of their DNA—and a boost in brainpower ...

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe.

A form of natural selection known as "negative ... Do you have a question about human evolution? Let us know via [email protected].

if perhaps in a different form, as humans encounter new challenges, such as climate change, space exploration, and artificial ...

Leibniz Institute for Primate Research and the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics have discovered ...

When evolution skeptics want to attack ... could have gone through changes and complexities to form the human eye, with its many parts and astounding abilities. Through natural selection ...

Face bones unearthed in a cave suggest that members of our genus, Homo, reached northern Spain as early as 1.4 million years ago.

Beyond human ancestry, the researchers say their method could help to transform how scientists study the evolution of other species. In addition to their analysis of human evolutionary history ...