The study questions the long-held belief that northern Africa became arid around 3 million years ago, which coincides with ...

A new breakdown of earthworm DNA could help us better understand how evolution works, and it could prove Darwin completely ...

Researchers discovered evidence for human habitation of rainforests 150,000 years ago. This pushes back the oldest known evidence of humans in rainforests by more than double the previously known ...

The part-skeleton of this small-bodied, relatively small-brained female captured the public's imagination.Lucy the ...

Using advanced analysis based on full genome sequences, researchers from the University of Cambridge have found evidence that ...

New evidence now shows that humans lived in rainforests at least 150 thousand years ago in ... researcher at the National Center for Human Evolution Research (CENIEH), ...

Recent discoveries using lab-grown brain organoids, or "mini-brains," suggest that testosterone increases brain size while ...

ABOVE: ©istock.com, ehrlif F or 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 ...

The placenta and the hormones it produces may have played a crucial role in the evolution of the human brain, while also ...

Theoretical, anthropological and genetic studies suggest that human evolution has been shaped by gene–culture interactions. This Review collates data from these diverse fields, and highlights ...

But predicting evolution is, if anything, even more precarious. Combining the two involves considerable speculation, and the very strong possibility of being wrong. At the risk of being wrong, my ...

New evidence now shows that humans lived in rainforests at least 150 thousand years ago in Africa, the home of our species. ... indicating diverse ecological settings for human evolution.