One of the defining features of human evolution is the steady expansion of our brains. New findings suggest this growth may be partly linked to higher levels of estrogen before birth. Surprisingly, a ...

The story of Charles Darwin’s life. His theory of evolution changed the way we understood our place in the world.

The evolution of human hands is one of the most important – and overlooked – stories of our origin. Now, new fossil evidence ...

Learn how repeated burn injuries may have acted as a form of natural selection, influencing human genes linked to healing and immune response.

Human newborns arrive remarkably underdeveloped. The reason lies in a deep evolutionary trade-off between big brains, bipedalism and the limits of motherhood.

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

Humans' exposure to high temperature burn injuries may have played an important role in our evolutionary development, shaping ...

Once overlooked, Morocco has emerged as a focal point of human prehistory, with new discoveries and a landmark report ...

Humans have been missing the mark since the beginning of their evolution, and the key to remedying this is to recognize the ...

Humans have lived with fire for over a million years. Scientists now say burn injuries may have influenced human evolution and healing.