A new study, published July 6, 2026, in the journal Nature Communications, suggests that two of the best-known trends in ...

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

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

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 ...

A new study has examined just how mothers influence the size of their child’s head – and as a result, its brain size and ...

(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 ...

Answer help for Changing Table, featuring one of today's clues: Primate studied to understand human evolution, from USA TODAY ...

A Ball State professor was part of a study linking tooth enamel to human evolution, including shifts tied to meat-eating and ...

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

✅ Know Your Terms: Hominin refers to all humans, plus our ancestral species who walked upright on two feet (including members ...

A new research study has challenged the understanding of what we know about our human relatives, named hobbits.Earlier it was ...