Scientists have uncovered surprising clues hidden deep in human DNA, and the findings are forcing experts to rethink a ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral ...

The work demonstrates the power of ancient DNA to illuminate human biology and medicine in addition to history. A massive ...

There was a moment in human history when our entire existence may have desperately clung to a thousand or more people.

When our distant ancestors first traded nomadic life for farming, villages, and permanent homes, you might assume that the ...

Walking on two legs has long been considered a milestone in human evolution and one of our most defining characteristics. Until now, researchers assumed that the first humans originated in Africa and ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

Human aging is not what natural selection failed to prevent. It is what happens when selection simply has nothing left to act ...

Researchers discovered that autism’s prevalence may be linked to human brain evolution. Specific neurons in the outer brain evolved rapidly, and autism-linked genes changed under natural selection.

Why do 90% of humans reach with the same hand? The answer stretches back millions of years and involves fossils, language and ...