For more than a century, scientists have treated the brain as the undisputed command center of human evolution, with the rest ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

The jawbones and vertebrae of a hominin that lived 773,000 years ago have been found in North Africa and could represent a ...

The pelvis is often called the keystone of upright movement. It helps explain how human ancestors left life on all fours ...

In the research, published Wednesday (Jan. 7) in the journal Nature, a team of Moroccan and French researchers detailed their ...

The Moroccan fossils now provide tangible evidence from this mysterious transitional period. What makes these fossils particularly significant is the precision with which they can be dated. The ...

The story of how us humans—and other mammals—got our noses may have just gotten more complicated. This is the conclusion of a new study by researchers from Japan who have studied how the face develops ...

Many people hold the view that evolution in humans has come to a halt. But while modern medicine and technologies have changed the environment in which evolution operates, many scientists are in ...

Share on Pinterest Human brain cell evolution may be linked to autism, neurodiversity, according to a new study. Image credit: Lauren Lee/Stocksy A new study concludes that the speed at which the ...