The Secrets of Fossil Teeth Revealed by the Synchrotron: A Long Childhood Is the Prelude to the Evolution of a Large Brain Nov. 13, 2024 — Could social bonds be the key to human big brains?

This evolution may be less about survival and more about reproductive success in our current environment. Changes in gene ...

Research on human evolution is advancing at a furious speed. Scholarly papers are being published constantly in scientific ...

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the "other humans" that our ancestors met across Europe ...

Smithsonian paleoanthropologists explore how the year brought us closer to understanding ancient human relatives and ... Anderson The magazine's most-read articles of the year included a close ...

A study in Science analyzed nitrogen isotope ratios in fossilized tooth enamel from seven Australopithecus individuals (3.7–3 ...

A new study outlines the ways by which city life may be shaping the evolution of urban coyotes, the highly adaptable carnivores spotted in alleyways from Berkeley, Calif., to the Bronx, in New York.

The discovery of Lucy, a 3.2 million-year-old skeleton, changed our theory of human evolution forever. The discovery is celebrating its 50-year anniversary, and continues to capture human imagination.

A study of tool use among chimps, our closest living relatives, has cast light on the human evolutionary journey.

a new study of human brain evolution has found. The study, published today (Tuesday, 26 November) in the journal PNAS, overturns long-standing ideas about human brain evolution. Scientists from ...