Discover the latest news, features and articles about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ...

The story of Charles Darwin’s life. His theory of evolution changed the way we understood our place in the world.

The Ducks (13-1, 9-1 Big Ten) and Hoosiers (14-0, 9-0 Big Ten) meet in Atlanta, with kickoff set for 4:30 PM Pacific Time on ESPN. The Daily... Digging in the dirt of East Africa for ancient monkey ...

Scientists find genetic mutation, millions of years ago. Oct. 12, 2011 — -- About three million years ago human predecessors embarked on a new course that would forever alter the evolution of our ...

Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to unravel in 2025. Analysis of DNA extracted from the fossil electrified the ...

Scientists in a recent research study have uncovered a surprising link between the 2.7 million-year-old climate tipping point and human evolution. The researchers led by the University of ...

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Human newborns arrive remarkably underdeveloped. The reason lies in a deep evolutionary trade-off between big brains, bipedalism and the limits of motherhood.

Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection transformed biology and continues to guide modern science, from ...

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 ...

Humans' exposure to high temperature burn injuries may have played an important role in our evolutionary development, shaping ...