Mounting evidence from genome studies indicates that, ... Yersinia pestis, which caused the bubonic plague pandemic known as the Black Death, have been major drivers of human evolution.

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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), ...

Boomerangs are some of humanity’s oldest tools. In the northernmost region of Australia, 50,000-year-old cave art appears to ...

Small clusters of pits in tooth enamel may be traced back to a single evolutionary lineage millions of years ago.

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 ...