Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary ...

How did humans become human? Understanding when, where and in what environmental conditions our early ancestors lived is ...

Genetics may no longer be the driving force of human evolution, a study by researchers from the University of Maine suggests.

Denisovans were first discovered as another relation to modern humans in 2010—It turns out they might be our closest relative ...

Modern humans emerged roughly 300,000 years ago, but our genus Homo is much older. So what's the oldest human species on ...

An ancient skull has finally shown us what the Denisovans looked like. Now it turns out they, not Neanderthals, might be our ...

Now a new study in Nature led by Harvard scientists reveals two key genetic shifts that remodeled the pelvis to help human ancestors become the upright bipeds ...

Some cosmic events could have profoundly altered the lives of our ancient human relatives. Did Neanderthals go extinct, at ...

Perhaps such a transition will be increasingly adaptive. Faced with growing ecological and social crises, the current ...

New research suggests that the evolution of the human brain may explain why autism is more common in humans than in other ...