We are indeed still evolving, though it can be hard to tell because it happens over generations and often involves things you ...

The study found that unlike other vertebrates where competition generally suppresses speciation after ecological niches are ...

Researchers found that ancient hominids—including early humans—were exposed to lead throughout childhood, leaving chemical ...

“The fossil and plant records tell an incredible story,” said Rahab N. Kinyanjui from the National Museums of Kenya. “As the ...

Evolution has given humans countless unique features, but one body part stands out as an unsolved puzzle: the human chin.

A million-year-old human skull found in China suggests that our species, Homo sapiens, began to emerge at least half a million years earlier than we thought, researchers are claiming in a new study.

Novato, California, July 15, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Jeffrey Charles Hardy introduces a three-tiered model of human evolution—the “First, Suspended, and Second Human Evolution.” Standing back and ...

While scientists know humans (homo sapiens) emerged in Africa around 300,000 years ago, before this monumental event much of our history has been hazy. Now a team from the University of Cambridge has ...

There’s a reason why ancient wisdom never truly grows old. Long before science tried to trace the journey of life through ...

Our brain’s evolution makes it nearly impossible to commit to a multi-generational mission like interstellar travel, says one ...

Human babies are born remarkably helpless, a deliberate evolutionary advantage. This early dependence allows for extended brain development outside t ...

The very first humans millions of years ago may have been inventors, according to a discovery in northwest Kenya. Researchers have found that the primitive humans who lived 2.75 million years ago at ...