This discovery suggests a new pathway for genetic evolution and may explain how species, including humans, develop unique traits. In a groundbreaking study, researchers identified 155 microgenes ...

Lucy, an early human ancestor, could run upright but much slower than modern humans. New simulations show that muscle and ...

A connected implant held the vibrating microchip, and another implant ... dozens of examples of relatively recent evolution. Anatomically modern humans migrated from Africa sometime between ...

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

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How did humans evolve into the big-brained, bipedal ape that we are today? This article examines the fossil evidence of our 6 million year evolution. Darwin's great insight, and the unifying ...

The community of microbes that live in the gut, known as the gut microbiome, may have fueled the evolution of humans' huge brains, a new study suggests. "Microbiome research has begun to show us ...

afarensis as "the ape that walked upright" makes it a celebrity species in the story of human evolution. Lucy's pelvis hints that she walked upright on two legs. When her crushed remains were ...

This study underscores that the evolution of human intelligence likely involved coordinated changes across all brain cell types, not just neurons. Our brain is arguably the organ that most ...

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