This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

New research challenges long-standing assumptions about human evolution, revealing that natural selection has been more ...

Researchers discovered that autism’s prevalence may be linked to human brain evolution. Specific neurons in the outer brain evolved rapidly, and autism-linked genes changed under natural selection.

A glass of milk can still mark a line through humanity. For most adults, drinking it brings discomfort because the body ...

Human babies arrive with 100 extra bones for the same reason birth is the most dangerous event in mammalian life. Both facts ...

Some of the smallest organisms might have influenced our own evolutionary path. A new study has found that the distribution ...