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 landmark study has uncovered evidence that challenges the long-held beliefs about human evolution.

Homo erectus may have left a detectable genetic trace in living humans through ancient interbreeding with Denisovans.

By Daaji We often think of evolution as a slow, chromosomal crawl, but modern neuroscience is beginning to confirm what yogis have known for millennia: consciousness shapes biology. Evolution is often ...

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

For decades, paleoanthropologists have largely agreed that somewhere along the evolutionary course from apelike ancestors to modern humans, our bodies got dramatically larger. However, one lingering ...

From back pain to wisdom teeth, many of the human body's common problems exist because evolution builds on old designs, a new ...

(Tero Vesalainen/iStock/Getty Images Plus) Try to think back to the last day you remember that wasn't packed full of things ...

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

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