A gene that exerts wide-ranging effects on the brain works harder in people than it does in chimpanzees and other nonhuman primates, a DNA disparity that apparently contributed to the evolution of ...

How did the evolutionary ancestors of Homo sapiens separate from the ancestors of modern apes? A key ingredient leading to modern human beings, according to researchers at the University of ...

The human chin has been fertile ground for arguments between scientists over its purpose. As with testicles, there are half a dozen plausible ideas to explain the evolution of the human chin.

Human evolution has long been visualized as a simple linear timeline, a kind of evolutionary baton race in which one species evolves into another, from apes to modern humans.

The meandering path of human evolution In “Transcendence,” Gaia Vince provides an epic account of the biological and cultural evolution of humanity ...

Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

In a first-of-its-kind discovery, a set of remarkable footprints found recently in East Africa has revealed that two species of extinct human ancestor crossed paths within hours of each other some ...

According to Darwin, the theory of evolution explains how species come to be, and natural selection is the process that drives it.

In ”Our Kind: The Evolution of Human Life & Culture” (Harper & Row), anthropologist Marvin Kind tells us who we are, where we came from and where we are going.

"We are biocultural ex-apes trying to understand ourselves," declares biological anthropologist Jonathan Marks in his new book, Tales of the Ex-Apes:How We Think About Human Evolution. That term ...

And today's burgeoning human ills — obesity, cardiovascular disease, cancer, sleep apnoea, terrible teeth, osteoporosis and so on — occur because we eat more generously than hunter-gatherers ...