Three-million-year-old tools found in Kenya reveal early humans' ability to cut food, butcher meat, and adapt to new diets.

New research using climate models provides fascinating insights into how environmental conditions influenced the evolution ...

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the "other humans" that our ancestors met across Europe ...

This research bridges significant gaps in the fossil record and offers a deeper understanding of how climatic events and genetic bottlenecks shaped the path of human evolution. By revealing a ...

A study of tool use among chimps, our closest living relatives, has cast light on the human evolutionary journey.

However, mutualists can take another path. They can evolve into harmful ... Important as other species were to human evolution, interactions with other humans were even more formative.

For decades, researchers believed human evolution followed a relatively straightforward path. The dominant theories suggested either that humans gradually evolved in place across different regions ...

The University of Liverpool has led an international team of scientists to take a fresh look at the running capabilities of Australopithecus afarensis, the early human ancestor famously represented by ...

Scientists at the California Institute of Technology have uncovered a surprising truth about the speed of human thought: our ...

This is the process of evolution in its simplest form ... This idea, though, has long been misunderstood as a path that leads in one direction toward “higher” or “better” organisms.