Yet the scientific evidence for human evolution keeps piling up with many discoveries of ancient bones, stone tools, cave drawings and other evidence of ancient life. For most people, only modern ...

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 ...

Two new studies add to the evidence that human activity, from fishing to urban development, is driving the evolution of wild ...

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

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

Considering that the earliest fossil evidence for modern humans currently dates to around 300,000 years ago, this structure was likely not made by our own species. Ancient jewelry unravels the ...

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

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 ...

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. Business Insider Subscribe Newsletters ...

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), ...

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 ...