A study of 225 newborns suggests prenatal estrogen may have played a role in the evolution of larger human brains. Boys with ...

Scientists say some of the traits that define modern humans may have evolved only after long-standing biological and cultural ...

A new study, published July 6, 2026, in the journal Nature Communications, suggests that two of the best-known trends in ...

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 ...

For decades, one idea has shaped discussions about human evolution and birth: humans endure unusually difficult childbirth ...

Researchers have put forth a theory that humans are no longer subject to natural selection for evolution, but instead that ...

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more common and sophisticated, its effects on human lives and societies raises new questions. A new paper published in The Quarterly Review of Biology posits ...

For years, the common belief among scientists was that human evolution had basically slowed to a crawl once we invented ...

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how human-specific DNA changes shaped human evolution. It's just over a decade since ...

For years, the Denisovans occupied an unusual place in the story of human evolution. They were recognised as one of our ...

By Daaji We often think of evolution as a slow, chromosomal crawl, but modern neuroscience is beginning to confirm what yogis ...