Some of the smallest organisms might have influenced our own evolutionary path. A new study has found that the distribution ...

New research into Upper Paleolithic fossils from western Eurasia suggests that hybridization between ancient human groups was not a rare side event, but a major force in human evolution. By comparing ...

New research on primate social structures and brain anatomy is offering deeper insights into the evolutionary pathways of humans. Studies on baboons, macaques, and chimpanzees reveal complex social ...

Long before humans spread across the globe, a deadly disease may have quietly shaped where our ancestors lived—and even how we evolved. New research reveals that malaria didn’t just threaten early ...

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 ...

A composite view of the Earth constructed by NASA from multiple satellite images Editor at Large Human evolution is a story writ slow. It’s been about 3.8 billion years since life on Earth emerged and ...

Walking on two legs has long been considered a milestone in human evolution and one of our most defining characteristics. Until now, researchers assumed that the first humans originated in Africa and ...

Many people today simply assume that our evolution has quietly ended with the development of the modern human. It's easy to think that medicine, science, and modern living have made us "perfect" or ...

Scientists have finally come face-to-face with an ancient human ancestor called Little Foot. A new digital reconstruction reveals the visage of one of our oldest close human relatives, researchers ...