Perhaps such a transition will be increasingly adaptive. Faced with growing ecological and social crises, the current ...

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

Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary ...

Genetics may no longer be the driving force of human evolution, a study by researchers from the University of Maine suggests.

But Beekman, along with a growing number of scholars, many of them women, emphasizes familial care in our understanding of ...

Fossilized teeth show that two different kinds of ancient human ancestors coexisted more than 2 million years ago. One of ...

Some cosmic events could have profoundly altered the lives of our ancient human relatives. Did Neanderthals go extinct, at ...

Evidence is mounting that the evolution of our species is more convoluted than we imagined — more like a braided stream than a branching tree.

Researchers say recently discovered teeth come from a previously undiscovered species of Australopithecus, adding to our understanding of human evolution.

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

Denisovans were first discovered as another relation to modern humans in 2010—It turns out they might be our closest relative ...

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