The secrets of human brain evolution are beginning to be unveiled thanks to a recent study. Researchers have explored key ...

How did cooperative behavior prevail in human evolution? Researchers have challenged two prevailing explanations -- repeated interactions on the one hand or group competition on the other. Instead, ...

This is one of the weirdest mysteries of human evolution: Why do we have grandmas? From menopause to our slow maturation and super-long lifespans, humans are quite unique in the animal kingdom. Could ...

Some of the genes from Population B, "particularly those related to brain function and neural processing, may have played a crucial role in human evolution," study co-author Trevor Cousins, a ...

Neandertals went extinct about 30,000 years ago. They lived successfully in Europe, Asia, and Africa for hundreds of thousands of years. Homo sapiens left Africa about 70,000 years ago and entered ...