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

Are humans evolving more through culture than DNA? A new study explores how medicine, technology, and institutions may guide ...

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

Paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi travels the world digging into the origin of Homo sapiens in a five-part BBC series ...

A new study suggests culture is reshaping human evolution faster than DNA, redefining how our species adapts, survives, and ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may be the result of millions of years of evolution. Rapid neuronal evolution in humans is ...

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

Human evolution has often been depicted as a process of adaptation, where natural selection and genetic changes drive species ...

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

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

Researchers discovered that certain human brain cells evolved unusually fast, altering autism-linked gene activity.

A new fossil find in the Republic of Georgia is expanding our understanding of the earliest humans to leave Africa.