A glass of milk can still mark a line through humanity. For most adults, drinking it brings discomfort because the body ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral ...

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

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 ...

A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by scientists from Israel and Ghana shows that an evolutionarily significant mutation in the human APOL1 gene arises not ...

Many people today simply assume that our evolution has quietly ended with the development of the modern human. It's easy to think that medicine, science, and modern living have made us "perfect" or ...

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

New research on primate social structures and brain anatomy is offering deeper insights into the evolutionary pathways of humans. Studies on baboons, macaques, and chimpanzees reveal complex social ...

As near as paleontologists can tell, evolution has been proceeding apace for 3.5 billion years, give or take. From the emergence of the humble single-cell organism that served as the last universal ...