Human evolution is often told as a tidy story of adaptation, yet some of our most familiar body parts still defy ...

An ancient, shared set of human-specific genes underwent changes in a geographically isolated population after around 300,000 years ago, scientists say.

Evolutionary problems are often considered in terms of 'origins', and research in human evolution seen as a search for human origins. However, evolution, including human evolution, is a process of ...

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new ...

The Many Humans of the Globe As our species (Homo sapiens) evolved and spread across the globe, they were contemporary with several other hominins. These include the best-known of our evolutionary ...

Human evolution may no longer be driven primarily by genetics, according to a new theory by researchers at the University of Maine which claims that cultural systems are now shaping the way humans ...

Participate in a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon and more this month at the National Museum of Natural History Jack Tamisiea Tens of thousands of years ago, ancient humans domesticated the ancestors of gray ...

Researchers have uncovered new insights into a long-lost human species known for their particularly hefty craniums, according to a recent study. The Julurens — or “big head” people — are twisting ...

Scientists have uncovered new evidence suggesting that autism may have it roots in how the human brain has evolved. "Our results suggest that some of the same genetic changes that make the human brain ...

Modern humans did not evolve from monkeys or any other animal that lives today. Humans continue to evolve but the traits we pass down aren't always for the species' betterment. "Survival of the ...