Mounting evidence from genome studies indicates that, contrary to received wisdom, our species has undergone profound ...

Many people hold the view that evolution in modern humans has come to a halt. But while modern medicine and technologies have changed the environment in which evolution operates, many scientists ...

and others where both modern and archaic humans differed from non-human primates. "We used an interdisciplinary approach to understand the evolution of hominid prosociality through the lens of the ...

Two of the traits that set modern humans apart from non-human primates are taller stature and a higher basal metabolic rate. Researchers have identified a genetic variant that contributed to the ...

Modern human cultural expression is characterized ... The earliest evidence for the evolution of bipedality—walking upright on two legs—which may have enabled the earliest hominins to expand ...

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 ...

Key physical and cultural milestones in modern human evolution, including genetic divergence of ethnic groups. This sudden flourishing of technology is called the “great leap forward ...

Why it matters — This in-depth study upends what was previously thought about the evolution of the modern human brain and when it happened in the earliest species in our genus Homo. For the ...

Many people hold the view that evolution in modern humans has come to a halt. But while modern medicine and technologies have changed the environment in which evolution operates, many scientists are ...