The story of human evolution usually starts at the point our ... of hominins coming down from the trees into savannas, and thus being forced to become bipedal. Rather, Ardipithecus lived in ...

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

Experts have been studying remote mountain communities and found they have certain genetic advantages which prove that ...

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the ...

Aa Aa Aa The study of human genetics has added a new layer of evidence to the story of how human beings evolved and ... and Eurasia contributed to the evolution of anatomically modern humans ...

He’s best known for popularising the theory of evolution in his book, On the Origin of Species, but Charles Darwin also had some very unsubstantiated ideas about human beings... In a later book ...

Our evolutionary history is now being rewritten by tiny discoveries ... he would make another discovery that would change the map of human evolution. A version of this story appears in the ...

When evolution skeptics want to attack Darwin's theory, they often point to the human eye. How could something so complex, they argue, have developed through random mutations and natural selection ...

Remarkable social behaviors have been discovered in Kinda baboons (Papio kindae) that set them apart from other baboon ...