The “Frozen Evolution” Myth A popular assumption says medicine, technology, and home comforts have put humanity beyond the ...

Scientists studied the remains of a mysterious human relative called Homo naledi found deep in a South African cave and ...

A vast stretch of islands across the South Pacific holds one of the oldest human stories on Earth. For tens of thousands of ...

Our brains are large compared with other animals, so it is tempting to assume there was an evolutionary advantage to them – ...

Hundreds of hominin fossils reveal that human body size remained stable for ages before a sharp increase in early members of ...

(Volodymyr Yakimchuk/Creatas Video+/Getty Images Plus) A seismic shift in the selection pressures acting on humans may have brought us to a major turning point in our evolutionary journey. According ...

A new analysis of thousands of bones from an Indonesian cave suggests Homo floresiensis scavenged Komodo dragon kills rather ...

Human-AI interactions can resemble human-human social interactions, with computers, and especially AI-driven technologies, becoming increasingly important social actors. It is in these interactions ...

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how human-specific DNA changes shaped human evolution. It's just over a decade since ...

By Daaji We often think of evolution as a slow, chromosomal crawl, but modern neuroscience is beginning to confirm what yogis ...

Understanding how laughter evolved can reveal the secrets of human speech In a Scientific First, Researchers Recovered ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain ...