Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral ...

When our distant ancestors first traded nomadic life for farming, villages, and permanent homes, you might assume that the ...

New research challenges long-standing assumptions about human evolution, revealing that natural selection has been more ...

This overview traces the evolutionary timeline from the great apes to modern humans, explaining where hominids and hominins ...

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

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...

Some of the smallest organisms might have influenced our own evolutionary path. A new study has found that the distribution ...

Genetic information from the "Dragon Man" skull has linked the fossil, found in China, to the Denisovans. - Hebei GEO University Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60 ...

Over the past 10,000 years, evolution in West Eurasia has selected for light skin, red hair and resistance to HIV in humans, ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The story of how us humans—and other mammals—got our noses may have just gotten more complicated. This is the conclusion ...

Human aging is not what natural selection failed to prevent. It is what happens when selection simply has nothing left to act ...

The human gastrointestinal tract is in a constant state of flux; it hosts a diverse and dynamic community of microbes known as the gut microbiome, and is constantly exposed to things in the ...