A new study finds early humans ate tough grasses and tubers long before their teeth adapted, suggesting behavior, not biology, drove human evolution.

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain ...

Human evolution is a complex topic that's easy to misunderstand and many myths persist about the past, present, and future of the human species.

This technological leap has resulted in a dazzling discovery: there was not one, but at least three separate waves of recent human–Neanderthal admixture in the last 250,000 years. The earliest ...

A lost chapter in human evolution has been revealed after an analysis of modern DNA found that we come from not one but two ancestral populations—ones that drifted apart and later reconnected ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts—from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain—have been assembled in fits and starts over the 4 billion years of ...

The skull has facial features that are similar to early modern humans, which scientists think began to branch away from another human ancestor known as Homo erectus sometime between 550,000 and ...

Evolution: 150,000-Year-Old Rainforest Discovery Shakes Up Human History Published Feb 26, 2025 at 11:00 AM EST Updated Mar 02, 2025 at 2:02 PM EST By Ian Randall ...

The nature of human evolution has to change.” The study was published Monday in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, the world’s longest-running science journal.