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

The discovery of a Lucy, a 3.2 million-year-old skeleton changed our theory of human evolution forever. The discovery is ...

The New York Times hails the find of Piltdown Man with the headline "Darwin Theory is Proved True." The find at first bolsters the argument for human evolution -- in the 1920s, a model of the ...

Narrowly, the trial was about challenging a newly passed Tennessee state law against teaching evolution or any other theory denying the biblical account of the creation of man. Broadly ...

In there he proposed a second theory of evolution. A theory based on sexual ... Coe Professor at Yale University and author of “The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex,” reveals ...

He’s best known for popularising the theory of evolution in his book ... He also thought that “the average of mental power in man must be above that of woman.” Needless to say, none of ...

Based on his observations, he “began to develop a revolutionary theory about the ... “The Descent of Man”, which focused on how the principles of evolution and natural selection shaped ...