Human evolution has often been depicted as a process of adaptation, where natural selection and genetic changes drive species ...

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Shamahi charts humanity's evolutionary odyssey. We sat down with her to discuss the path of our species out of Africa to ...

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

Paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi travels the world digging into the origin of Homo sapiens in a five-part BBC series ...

New analysis of a 140,000-year-old skull morphologically resembling modern humans and Neanderthals may be the earliest ...

Humans were living in rainforests roughly 150,000 years ago, some 80,000 years earlier than was previously thought—and may have been an important center for early human evolution. This is the ...

Are humans evolving more through culture than DNA? A new study explores how medicine, technology, and institutions may guide ...

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

Researchers have dated the mysterious skull from Petralona Cave in Greece to 300,000 years ago and concluded that the fossil ...