Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary ...

How did humans become human? Understanding when, where and in what environmental conditions our early ancestors lived is ...

New research suggests that the evolution of the human brain may explain why autism is more common in humans than in other ...

Genetics may no longer be the driving force of human evolution, a study by researchers from the University of Maine suggests.

Newly discovered fossils in Ethiopia show that Homo coexisted with Australopithecus 2.6 million years ago, rewriting the ...

In a Genomic Press Interview published today in Brain Medicine, Dr. Alex Tsompanidis highlights an exciting new idea that ...

The extraordinary evolution of humans is often exemplified by two defining traits: large brains and highly dexterous hands.

An ancient skull has finally shown us what the Denisovans looked like. Now it turns out they, not Neanderthals, might be our ...

A paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution finds that the relatively high rate of autism-spectrum disorders in humans is ...

Fossilized teeth show that two different kinds of ancient human ancestors coexisted more than 2 million years ago. One of ...

Modern humans emerged roughly 300,000 years ago, but our genus Homo is much older. So what's the oldest human species on ...