Brain growth slowed down about 300,000 years ago due to energetic and climate pressures, according to a study published in ...

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors ...

The pelvis is often called the keystone of upright locomotion. More than any other part of our lower body, it has been ...

New Ethiopian fossils show early Homo and Australopithecus lived together, revealing a complex human evolution story.

Lauren Schroeder looks beyond natural selection to rethink human evolution Paleoanthropologists have long focused primarily on adaptive processes ...

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

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

The human chin has been fertile ground for arguments between scientists over its purpose. As with testicles, there are half a dozen plausible ideas to explain the evolution of the human chin.

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...