Human aging is not what natural selection failed to prevent. It is what happens when selection simply has nothing left to act ...

There was a moment in human history when our entire existence may have desperately clung to a thousand or more people.

A growing number of discoveries are reshaping long-held ideas about human evolution, from unexpectedly early stone tools to ...

Ancient DNA reveals how farming accelerated human evolution, driving genetic changes over the past 10,000 years.

The work demonstrates the power of ancient DNA to illuminate human biology and medicine in addition to history. A massive ...

A composite view of the Earth constructed by NASA from multiple satellite images Editor at Large Human evolution is a story writ slow. It’s been about 3.8 billion years since life on Earth emerged and ...

On Valentine’s Day in 2018, a team of scientists walked across a flat expanse in the badlands of northeastern Ethiopia, scanning the ground for fossils. An eagle-eyed field assistant, Omar Abdulla, ...

A badly crushed cranium unearthed decades ago from a riverbank in central China that once defied classification is now shaking up the human family tree, according to a new analysis.Related video above ...

Genetic information from the "Dragon Man" skull has linked the fossil, found in China, to the Denisovans. - Hebei GEO University Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60 ...

Human brain cell evolution may be linked to autism, neurodiversity, according to a new study. Image credit: Lauren Lee/Stocksy Although we humans like to think of ourselves as the pinnacle of ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may be the result of millions of years of evolution. Rapid neuronal evolution in humans is likely ASD’s genetic cause, new research suggests. Though autism can cause ...