Every step you take depends on a structure most people rarely think about. The pelvis sits at the center of the body and ...

The latest discoveries in Central China's Henan province are filling critical gaps in understanding East Asia's role in human ...

Did you know humans might have had a third eye, if it weren't for evolution? A common misconception is that evolution is a long chain of progress, where organisms gain cool, new features over time.

At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

Humans are the only primates that run nearly naked under the sun. Here’s how this biological tradeoff reshaped how our ancestors hunted, cooled themselves and survived.

Long before humans became master hunters, our ancestors were already thriving by making the most of what nature left behind. New research suggests that scavenging animal carcasses wasn’t a desperate ...

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 ...

UCL scientists found that human skulls evolved much faster than those of other apes, reflecting the powerful forces driving our brain growth and facial flattening. By comparing 3D models of ape skulls ...

Our species, Homo sapiens, has been evolving for more than 300,000 years, but the story of human origins starts much earlier. Since evolving from the common ancestor that we share with our closest ...

A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution, published by Oxford University Press, finds that the relatively high rate of Autism-spectrum disorders in humans is likely due to how humans evolved in ...