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

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

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.

Fossils dating back 773,000 years from Thomas Quarry I in Morocco shed new light on the shared ancestry of Homo sapiens, Neandertals, and Denisovans. An international team of researchers has ...

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 ...

Hank brings you the facts, as they are understood by scientists today, about the evolution of humans from our humble primate ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A reconstruction of the crushed skull labelled Yunxian 2, which has features that are closer to species thought to have existed ...

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 ...

Artificial intelligence allows tracing the evolution of genetic control elements in the developing mammalian cerebellum. An ...

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 ...