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 ...

Turns out, one of the world's oldest staple foods may have done more than keep people fed.

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

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 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 ...

Researchers who investigated the remains of a young adult male found in the Qafzeh cave say the injury healed over time, ...

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 ...

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 ...

A self-proclaimed healthcare futurist, Jeffrey Charles Hardy, says that after millions of years, human evolution has stalled out. He believes we are in a state of suspended evolution before the second ...