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

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

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

Some cosmic events could have profoundly altered the lives of our ancient human relatives. Did Neanderthals go extinct, at ...

The fossils, attributed to an unknown australopithecus that lived in present-day Ethiopia 2.6 million years ago, have met with skepticism from other experts ...

But Beekman, along with a growing number of scholars, many of them women, emphasizes familial care in our understanding of ...

Like other species, we are the products of millions of years of adaptation. Now we're taking matters into our own hands.

Ten fossil teeth belong to new Australopithecus species Found in Afar Region, they are 2.65 million years old This species coexisted with an early Homo species Fossils underscore complex nature of ...

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

Perhaps such a transition will be increasingly adaptive. Faced with growing ecological and social crises, the current configuration of human society—atomized, slow to coordinate, prone to ...

F or the past century and a half, the concept of evolution has primarily been wielded by those describing change of a purely ...

Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis occurred, where life emerged from non-life. Imagine a hot, watery mix of ...