(Volodymyr Yakimchuk/Creatas Video+/Getty Images Plus) A seismic shift in the selection pressures acting on humans may have ...

The whites of your eyes are not an accident. They are, scientists now believe, one of the most sophisticated social ...

A fossil ape discovered in northern Egypt is reshaping the story of human evolution. The species, Masripithecus, lived about 17 to 18 million years ago and may sit very close to the ancestor of all ...

From epic poetry to game shows, from Stone Age axes to spaceflight, humans have the most complex cultures of any species on Earth. Since the time of Darwin, scientists have suspected that this culture ...

Humans really do rule the world. We took over fast and far, more than any other wild vertebrates. We inhabit nearly every ...

Five major discoveries from 2021 are presented as milestones in human evolution research: the oldest figurative cave art in ...

Human evolution is a story writ slow. It’s been about 3.8 billion years since life on Earth emerged and steadily began to ...

The extraordinary evolution of humans is often exemplified by two defining traits: large brains and highly dexterous hands. Together, they enabled the development of tools, the rise of complex ...

A new analysis of genetic studies proposes that the cognitive capacity for language was already present at least 135,000 ...

A new study shows cultural evolution helped humans expand across Earth far faster than genetic change alone could achieve.

Could a newly discovered fossil in Egypt fundamentally change everything scientists currently know about human evolution?