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

Recent fossil discoveries lend credence to the fascinating proposition that non-human species may have coexisted alongside ...

Paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi travels the world digging into the origin of Homo sapiens in a five-part BBC series ...

Researchers discovered that certain human brain cells evolved unusually fast, altering autism-linked gene activity.

Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary ...

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 ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may be the result of millions of years of evolution. Rapid neuronal evolution in humans is ...

Fossilized teeth show that two different kinds of ancient human ancestors coexisted more than 2 million years ago. One of ...

How did humans become human? Understanding when, where and in what environmental conditions our early ancestors lived is ...

New research suggests that the evolution of the human brain may explain why autism is more common in humans than in other ...

Global cooling associated with the impact of supernova remnants may have affected plants and animals, including species related to humans.