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 ...

A new study explores how culture is overtaking genetics as the driving force in human evolution and shaping our future.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Denisovans were first discovered as another relation to modern humans in 2010—It turns out they might be our closest relative ...

Fragments of fossils unearthed from the Hualongdong ruin, a key site to showcase East Asia's human evolution in China's Anhui ...

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