Researchers digitally reconstructed a crushed skull and concluded our species is 1 million years old, igniting a debate over ...

A previously unknown species of Australopithecus have been discovered in Ethiopia’s Afar region, coexisting with early Homo over 2.6 million years ago—overturning long-standing assumptions about the ...

Decades after a skull was unearthed in China’s Hubei Province, researchers said they suspect a much earlier and more complex ...

More than 20 species make a nearly identical noise to warn nearby birds of brood parasites, a behavior that bridges the “sharp division between animal communication systems and human language” A ...

More than 20 species make a nearly identical noise to warn nearby birds of brood parasites, a behavior that bridges the ...

The findings have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers said.

Stanford study finds rapid brain cell evolution boosted human cognition but lowered autism gene activity, raising ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...

Shamahi charts humanity's evolutionary odyssey. We sat down with her to discuss the path of our species out of Africa to ...

What makes the human brain different from that of other primates has long been a question. A new study suggests that the ...

In the grand story of evolution, the crowning human distinction is our big brain. But our large heads have been slow to ...