A new landmark study has uncovered evidence that challenges the long-held beliefs about human evolution.

Scientists say some of the traits that define modern humans may have evolved only after long-standing biological and cultural ...

For years, the common belief among scientists was that human evolution had basically slowed to a crawl once we invented ...

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 ...

A stunning fossil discovery in Ethiopia shows that early Homo and a previously unknown Australopithecus species lived together around 2.6 to 2.8 million years ago. The find overturns the classic ...

When we think of lead poisoning, most of us imagine modern human-made pollution, paint, old pipes, or exhaust fumes. But our new study, published today in Science Advances, reveals something far more ...

For decades, one idea has shaped discussions about human evolution and birth: humans endure unusually difficult childbirth ...

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