Humans evolved large brains and flat faces at a surprisingly rapid pace compared to other apes, likely reflecting the ...

A 4.4-million-year-old Ardipithecus fossil named "Ardi" shows early humans walked upright, keeping ape-like climbing ...

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

When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the ...

A study quantifies for the first time the speed at which ape species have evolved, showing that the 'sapiens' skull and face ...

Lead exposure may have spelled evolutionary success for humans—and extinction for our ancient cousins—but other scientists ...

Several hominid species were consistently exposed to lead for almost two million years, which may have given modern humans a ...

Since being discovered in 1994, Ardi’s 4.4-million-year-old remains have been at the heart of an anthropological debate. To ...

The findings of this study suggest that the first humans may have originated from apes that were accustomed to living in two ...

A recent study proposes a new paradigm for understanding the role of carrion in the subsistence of human populations ...

The new work suggests that scavenging persisted among humans long after hunting emerged. So while it has long been argued ...

Evolutionary biologists have long believed that the human-biting mosquito, Culex pipiens form molestus,evolved from the ...