Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the "other humans" that our ancestors met across Europe ...

Human evolution is far from a relic of the past, as a new study in Behavior Genetics demonstrates. By analyzing data from ...

Modern humans (from around 300,000 years ago) Many people look at human evolution chiefly to explain us, Homo sapiens. But we are the culmination of a long process of evolution—no more than 5% ...

New research uncovers how evolution and improved living conditions are accelerating men's growth more than women's.

A: Human evolution, at first, seems extraordinary. How could the process that gave rise to slugs and oak trees and fish produce a creature that can fly to the moon and invent the Internet and ...

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?

This whittled away genes for skittishness and aggression, beginning the process of dog domestication. The inadvertent selection that turned wolves into dogs turns out to be instructive in how AI might ...

The study, published in the Journal of Human Evolution, demonstrates that the process used by a group of chimps to select stones for use as tools appear to resemble what is documented for Oldowan ...

When animals digest food, their bodies process nitrogen in a way that leaves distinct ... this study is how it challenges ...