Human babies arrive with 100 extra bones for the same reason birth is the most dangerous event in mammalian life. Both facts ...

There is something almost comforting about the old, schoolbook version of human origins. It had a single ancestral population ...

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

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

It would be tempting to believe that human evolution has slowed since our ancestors left Africa 300,000 years ago. Yet a new ...

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

Data from more than 15,000 ancient people reveal natural selection of hundreds of genes linked to immunity, skin tone, behaviour and other traits. The biggest ever study of ancient human DNA shows ...

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. By Carl ...

A skull fragment discovered over fifty years ago on the banks of the Elbe River in Germany has finally yielded its secrets. Long considered by some researchers to be a rare Neanderthal-modern human ...

Outbreaks of violence between chimpanzees have sparked fierce debate online about the origins of war in humans ...