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 ...

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

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

A new study suggests culture is reshaping human evolution faster than DNA, redefining how our species adapts, survives, and ...

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

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

There’s a problem with that “March of Progress” picture that’s so often used to illustrate our species’ development: it ends. Human evolution, the image implies, began in apehood and finishes here, ...

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

Perhaps such a transition will be increasingly adaptive. Faced with growing ecological and social crises, the current ...

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