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

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

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 ...

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

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

Newly discovered fossils in Ethiopia show that Homo coexisted with Australopithecus 2.6 million years ago, rewriting the ...

A new study suggests culture is reshaping human evolution faster than DNA, redefining how our species adapts, survives, and ...

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

Humans have long viewed themselves as the pinnacle of evolution, labeling other species as “primitive” or using terms like ...

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

An ancient skull has finally shown us what the Denisovans looked like. Now it turns out they, not Neanderthals, might be our ...