Human testicles are much smaller, in proportion, to some of our primate cousins. Evolution can tell us why. But the size of ...

In 1929, archaeologists discovered the 140,000-year-old skeleton of a young girl in Skhūl Cave. The researchers believed her ...

The human chin has been fertile ground for arguments between scientists over its purpose. As with testicles, there are half a dozen plausible ideas to explain the evolution of the human chin.

In testing the genetic material of current populations in Africa and comparing against existing fossil evidence of early Homo sapiens populations there, researchers have uncovered a new model of human ...

Many people look at human evolution chiefly to explain us, Homo sapiens. But we are the culmination of a long process of evolution—no more than 5% of the whole hominin story by time spent on ...

Although it is widely understood that Homo sapiens originated in Africa, uncertainty surrounds how branches of human evolution diverged and how people migrated across the continent, said Brenna ...

For decades, the dominant theory in human evolution suggested that modern humans descended from a single ancestral lineage in Africa. However, groundbreaking new research from the University of ...

Our human evolution workshops were conducted with well-resourced and historically disadvantaged schools attending. The grade ...

While our current research has shed light on the evolution of the human heart, our work analyzing the hearts of endangered great apes continues. Sadly, cardiac disease is the leading cause of ...

Humanity’s domination of nature put an end to a millions-year-long human evolution run, according to self-proclaimed healthcare futurist Jeffrey Charles Hardy. And now that the first stage of ...

Understanding something as complex as human evolution in Africa requires many different people with different perspectives to get the story right, writes guest columnist Dr. Elizabeth (Ebeth) Sawchuk.