Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to ...

A new theory suggests windows of opportunity, not a series of improbable events may have helped humans gain a foothold in the ...

The discovery of a Lucy, a 3.2 million-year-old skeleton changed our theory of human evolution forever. The discovery is celebrating its 50-year anniversary, continues to capture human imagination ...

The Secrets of Fossil Teeth Revealed by the Synchrotron: A Long Childhood Is the Prelude to the Evolution of a Large Brain Nov. 13, 2024 — Could social bonds be the key to human big brains?

Human evolution is far from a relic of the past ... The new study is grounded in an economic theory of fertility, first proposed by economist Gary Becker, which explains how economic considerations ...

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the ...

And this kind infanticide is really damaging to the sexual interest of the females.So one of the things that had to happen in human evolution was to solve the infanticide problem. Human females ...

When evolution skeptics want to attack Darwin's theory, they often point to the human eye. How could something so complex, they argue, have developed through random mutations and natural selection ...

Meet your ancient relatives, trace the origins and evolution of our species, and explore what makes us human. Embark on a seven-million-year journey, from the first hominins to the last surviving ...