CENIEH is part of the international team publishing in Nature Ecology & Evolution a comprehensive review of two million years of fossil and ...

It also takes a lot of energy to train a human,” Altman told a packed pavilion. “It takes like 20 years of life and all of ...

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

The decline of reading and the rise of social media are again transforming what it feels like to be a thinking person.

When most people think about natural selection, they imagine individuals competing with one another: The fastest animal ...

Human intelligence wasn’t a cosmic evolutionary fluke, some scientists say. The case against cosmic loneliness is growing.

Survival of the fittest. Nature red in tooth and claw. The common view of natural selection is based solely on the individual: A trait allows an organism to out-compete its rivals and is thus passed ...

Introduction: The accumulation of genomic and brain data opens new opportunities for resource friendly, data driven brain exploration. A key challenge is to develop versatile and accessible strategies ...

A skull discovered in Petralona Cave, Greece, has been used by some sources to claim that humans evolved independently in Europe. This examines the skull’s actual age, morphology, and scientific ...

Scientists working in a Moroccan quarry have unearthed remarkable hominin fossils dating back 773,000 years, potentially rewriting our understanding of where modern humans, Neanderthals, and ...

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 ...

One of the most important questions in human evolution concerns the identity of the first human to leave Africa. A new study, however, fundamentally challenges the central role traditionally ...