For nearly 30 years, a landmark study shaped how scientists understood the relationship between brain and body size in ...

The ancestors of modern humans and great apes began laughing at least 15 million years ago. This was reported by Popular ...

A new study constructs the first 3D single-cell brain atlas of the lamprey, uncovering the 450-million-year-old molecular ...

Evolutionary psychology is known for dark parts of our nature, like homicide. But it also explains prosocial behaviors, like ...

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors to modern humans, researchers now see a tangled, branching tree with ...

A stunning discovery buried deep inside a cave for 1.8 million years is rewriting the story of human evolution.

A new Yale-led study provides one of the most detailed and comprehensive analyses to date of genetic variation in human populations in Oceania, filling a major gap in representation in genomics ...

New fossil discoveries are reshaping scientists’ understanding of a pivotal chapter in human evolution, revealing that several human ancestor lineages lived side by side nearly 3 million years ago.

A Crash Course In Human Evolution With Anthropologist Chris Stringer' What was the timeline of human evolution? What was our ...

The human body may seem finely engineered, but many of its most familiar features reveal a history of evolutionary compromise rather than perfect design. Credit: Shutterstock The human body evolved ...

Some researchers hold that evolution hasn’t much altered humans in the past 10,000 years. A new analysis of ancient DNA indicates that natural selection continued to shape hundreds of genes. By Carl ...