For more than a century, scientists have sought to reconstruct human evolution using diverse lines of evidence, including ...

A strange theory suggests a human-like species, Homo floresiensis, may still inhabit Flores Island caves. These small-bodied ...

A new landmark study has uncovered evidence that challenges the long-held beliefs about human evolution.

Researchers have put forth a theory that humans are no longer subject to natural selection for evolution, but instead that ...

Scientists say some of the traits that define modern humans may have evolved only after long-standing biological and cultural ...

The story of Charles Darwin’s life. His theory of evolution changed the way we understood our place in the world.

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

The NCAA Track and Field Championships took place last Wednesday at Hayward Field as redshirt freshman Ben Smith came out on top in the men’s... TrackTown USA got its headliner last weekend as the ...

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the process differed from the evolution of chimpanzees. For the study, published ...

Human newborns arrive remarkably underdeveloped. The reason lies in a deep evolutionary trade-off between big brains, bipedalism and the limits of motherhood. Why is it that, compared to most other ...

Share on Pinterest Human brain cell evolution may be linked to autism, neurodiversity, according to a new study. Image credit: Lauren Lee/Stocksy A new study concludes that the speed at which the ...