Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to ...

The Secrets of Fossil Teeth Revealed by the Synchrotron: A Long Childhood Is the Prelude to the Evolution of a Large Brain Nov. 13, 2024 — Could social bonds be the key to human big brains?

The story of human evolution usually starts at the point our ... there is a good chance that at least a simple form of language was very widespread at this point, if not earlier.

Researchers discovered how genetic switches shaped human brain evolution by fine-tuning shared gene expression.

For the past 150 years, scientists and laypeople alike have accepted a “savanna” scenario of human evolution. The theory, primarily based on fossil evidence, suggests that because our ancestral ape ...

Two fossils named Ardi and Lucy provide evidence for human evolution. Both were found in Africa. Ardi is a female human-like fossilised skeleton that dates from 4.4 million years ago. Ardi's bones ...

When evolution skeptics want to attack ... could have gone through changes and complexities to form the human eye, with its many parts and astounding abilities. Through natural selection ...

Most of the genomic changes that occurred during human evolution did not occur directly ... levels of the TBX1 gene and that ...

Remarkable social behaviors have been discovered in Kinda baboons (Papio kindae) that set them apart from other baboon ...