ScienceAlert on MSN

Human Evolution May Be Undergoing a Major Shift Right in Front of Our Eyes

(Volodymyr Yakimchuk/Creatas Video+/Getty Images Plus) A seismic shift in the selection pressures acting on humans may have ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN

Human evolution wasn’t sudden; unfolded gradually over time: Study claims

The time has come to reconsider an outdated understanding of human evolution: it was ...
Forbes

A Biologist Explains Why Humans Have Chins. Hint: Anthropologists Still Can’t Agree On The Answer

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This ...
Forbes

Are Humans The Only Primates With White Eyes? An Evolutionary Biologist Explains The Research

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This ...
Daily Emerald

UO professor argues against paleontologist’s human evolution theory

After back-to-back dominant wins yesterday, the Ducks were in for a battle against No. 1 UCLA with the Big Ten Tournament Championship on the... Oregon baseball’s power surge continued in the second ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The Top Human Evolution Discoveries of 2025, From the Intriguing Neanderthal Diet to the Oldest Western European Face Fossil

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 ...
News Medical

Burn injuries may have driven key human evolutionary traits

Humans' exposure to high temperature burn injuries may have played an important role in our evolutionary development, shaping how our bodies heal, fight infection, and sometimes fail under extreme ...