After the rapidly expanding australopithecines, it is a relief to find the next 1.5 million years of human evolution looking rather simpler. One hominin—Homo erectus—becomes supreme ...

Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to a new model for how intelligent life developed on Earth.

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A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Humans have evolved for over hundreds of thousands of years, but what comes next isn't as predictable as you might think. Neil deGrasse Tyson explains what the ...

For the past 150 years, scientists and laypeople alike have accepted a “savanna” scenario of human evolution. The theory, primarily based on fossil evidence, suggests that because our ancestral ape ...

Over the next six weeks, the team observed the chimps ... Do you have a question about human evolution? Let us know via [email protected].

This article examines the fossil evidence of our 6 million year evolution. Darwin's great insight ... The fossil record, along with studies of human and ape DNA, indicate that humans shared ...

And this kind infanticide is really damaging to the sexual interest of the females.So one of the things that had to happen in human evolution was to solve the infanticide problem. Human females ...

Two fossils named Ardi and Lucy provide evidence for human evolution. Both were found in Africa. Ardi is a female human-like fossilised skeleton that dates from 4.4 million years ago. Ardi's bones ...

Scientists think that some form of australopithecine is likely to have given rise to the next phase of human evolution, the genus Homo. There have been many species similar to us that have lived over ...