Previously, we examined the remarkable disparity between the intellectual capacities of human beings and primates. While our closest relatives, the chimpanzee, possess traits and characteristics that ...

The discovery of a new fossil has once again turned our understanding of human evolution on its head. This monumental find suggests that hominins may have ventured out of Africa much earlier than ...

Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary shift—driven not by genes, but by culture. "Human evolution seems to be changing ...

On Valentine’s Day in 2018, a team of scientists walked across a flat expanse in the badlands of northeastern Ethiopia, scanning the ground for fossils. An eagle-eyed field assistant, Omar Abdulla, ...

Ancient DNA reveals how farming accelerated human evolution, driving genetic changes over the past 10,000 years.