A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the process differed from the evolution of chimpanzees. For the study, published ...

A lost chapter in human evolution has been revealed after an analysis of modern DNA found that we come from not one but two ancestral populations—ones that drifted apart and later reconnected long ...

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

40,000 years ago, Neanderthals still shared the Earth with our ancestors. Recent discoveries are challenging our linear view of human evolution. Advances in genetics reveal that our evolutionary ...

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

On Valentine’s Day in 2018, a team of scientists walked across a flat expanse in the badlands of northeastern Ethiopia, scanning the ground for fossils. An eagle-eyed field assistant, Omar Abdulla, ...

Amna Nawaz: We often talk about human origins as the evolution of man, but what if we saw it as the evolution of woman? A new book argues for a better understanding of our beginnings, with critical ...