In the research, published Wednesday (Jan. 7) in the journal Nature, a team of Moroccan and French researchers detailed their ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

The jawbones and vertebrae of a hominin that lived 773,000 years ago have been found in North Africa and could represent a ...

The pelvis is often called the keystone of upright movement. It helps explain how human ancestors left life on all fours ...

What will humans be like generations from now in a world transformed by artificial intelligence (AI)? Plenty of thinkers have applied themselves to questions like this, considering how AI will alter ...

A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

Many people hold the view that evolution in humans has come to a halt. But while modern medicine and technologies have changed the environment in which evolution operates, many scientists are in ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may be the result of millions of years of evolution. Rapid neuronal evolution in humans is likely ASD’s genetic cause, new research suggests. Though autism can ...

Researchers find Apennine brown bears evolved into a smaller, less aggressive animal after centuries of coexistence with humans.