Researchers found that ancient hominids—including early humans—were exposed to lead throughout childhood, leaving chemical ...

A new paper by evolutionary anthropologists Colin Shaw (University of Zurich) and Daniel Longman (Loughborough University) ...

Although we humans have changed our environment in many ways during the past few thousand years, we are still changed by evolution. We have not stopped evolving, but we are evolving right now in ...

The Omo-Turkana Basin, where the Omo River drains into Lake Turkana in Africa, has been one of the three most valuable ...

Our brain’s evolution makes it nearly impossible to commit to a multi-generational mission like interstellar travel, says one ...

The Many Humans of the Globe As our species (Homo sapiens) evolved and spread across the globe, they were contemporary with ...

A timeline of genetic changes in millions of years of human evolution shows that variants linked to higher intelligence appeared most rapidly around 500,000 years ago, and were closely followed by ...

The human brain is the most complex system we’re currently aware of. Learning the genetic basis for its evolution, and the changes that distinguish Homo sapiens from our closest relatives, could ...

Human babies are born remarkably helpless, a deliberate evolutionary advantage. This early dependence allows for extended brain development outside t ...

Adrienne Zihlman, a professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is being honored for her bold and pioneering work investigating human evolution. Zihlman has been selected as ...