What makes the human brain different from that of other primates has long been a question. A new study suggests that the ...

A recent study dramatically pushes back the date for the emergence of our species, though some researchers call for further ...

Volcanic eruptions are excellent timekeepers because they happen very quickly, geologically speaking. As hot magma erupts, it ...

Stanford study finds rapid brain cell evolution boosted human cognition but lowered autism gene activity, raising vulnerability.

A groundbreaking million-year-old skull discovered in China challenges established timelines of human evolution, suggesting ...

Scientists digitally reconstructed a 1 million-year-old skull unearthed in China. The analysis suggests it may have belonged ...

The significant push back in the date of origin of modern-day humans is notable. It indicates that, in the last 800,000 years ...

A new study concludes that the speed at which the human brain evolved may help explain why our species experiences autism.

When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the ...

A deformed human skull discovered over thirty years ago in central China is now upending what researchers believed they ...

Paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi travels the world digging into the origin of Homo sapiens in a five-part BBC series ...