In China, researchers studying the burial site of one of the world's most well-preserved mummies also unearthed what's ...

The discovery of a Lucy, a 3.2 million-year-old skeleton changed our theory of human evolution forever. The discovery is celebrating its 50-year anniversary, continues to capture human imagination.

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. Subscribe ...

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 evolved testicles of all different sizes. In almost all these separate cases, ...

Human genetic diversity and evolution rely on new mutations and exchange of DNA between chromosomes during the generation of sex cells, in a process called recombination. Recombination manifests ...

Human Evolution 'Huge surprise' reveals how some humans left Africa 50,000 years ago. Archaeology Human ancestor was in Eurasia nearly 2 million years ago, cut marks on animal bones suggest.

The turn of the next millennium is still a long way off, but that hasn’t stopped scientists from simulating what future human evolution might look like when the year 3000 hits. The result? A ...

A lost chapter in human evolution has been revealed after an analysis of modern DNA found that we come from not one but two ancestral populations—ones that drifted apart and later reconnected ...

A self-proclaimed healthcare futurist, Jeffrey Charles Hardy, says that after millions of years, human evolution has stalled out. He believes we are in a state of suspended evolution before the ...

The nature of human evolution has to change.” The study was published Monday in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, the world’s longest-running science journal.