In pursuit of knowledge, the evolution of humanity ranks with the origins of life and the universe. And yet, except when an ...

Millions of years ago, Lucy revolutionized our understanding of human evolution. Now, discover how her contemporaries add ...

The 3.2-million-year-old fossil, discovered 50 years ago, is considered to be one of the most significant early hominin ...

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more common and sophisticated, its effects on human lives and societies raises new ...

Our understanding of human ancestry has changed dramatically since the discovery of Lucy the ancient hominin 50 years ago.

He’s best known for popularising the theory of evolution in his book, On the Origin of Species, but Charles Darwin also had some very unsubstantiated ideas about human beings... In a later book ...

Aa Aa Aa The study of human genetics has added a new layer of evidence to the story of how human beings evolved and ... and Eurasia contributed to the evolution of anatomically modern humans ...

Environmental change may have been a key influence in this evolution of early Homo sapiens ... the resources available to our early ancestors. Human Origins Program, Smithsonian The dig site ...

A variety of researchers are converging on the view that human evolution has been shaped by ... of the genome that have been identified as being subject to recent selection, few causal variants ...

But this oversimplified view of human evolution is not quite right ... said that this is one of the cardinal features of being human. But it [Lucy] had a very small brain, so it solidified ...