New research challenges long-standing assumptions about human evolution, revealing that natural selection has been more ...

When our distant ancestors first traded nomadic life for farming, villages, and permanent homes, you might assume that the ...

New research into Upper Paleolithic fossils from western Eurasia suggests that hybridization between ancient human groups was not a rare side event, but a major force in human evolution. By comparing ...

Some researchers hold that evolution hasn’t much altered humans in the past 10,000 years. A new analysis of ancient DNA indicates that natural selection continued to shape hundreds of genes.

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

Prehistoric humans in Africa may have avoided areas infested with malaria-spreading mosquitoes, a new study suggests.

Learn more about new research that analyzed 16,000 ancient genomes and discovered that natural selection hasn’t slowed down.

Researchers examining the brains of living people found that they differed more substantially than Neanderthals' brains ...

Some of the smallest organisms might have influenced our own evolutionary path. A new study has found that the distribution ...

Angela Pelster is well-recognized in the literary community for her work. On April 14, she published her collection of essays ...

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 ...