One finding that particularly conflicts with past assumptions is that Neanderthal brains grew throughout their history, ...

Modern humans, Neanderthals, and other recent relatives on our human family tree evolved bigger brains much more rapidly than earlier species, a new study of human brain evolution has found.&nbs ...

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

Lucy has and continues to play a fundamental role in our understanding of our ancient ancestors and how we evolved.

The famous early human is still providing lessons to anthropologists about prehistoric Earth and its inhabitants ...

Evolution could alter or even eliminate some of the human traits we cherish most, changing forever what it means to be human.

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

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

Using ancient samples, the scientists were able to peer into the past and reveal new markers of adaptation from the early ...

Medical and technological advances have allowed more of us to survive and to live longer, healthier lives. Does this make ...

Despite being the oldest known hominin ... In June, a team that included Macchiarelli and Bergeret-Medina published a response in the Journal of Human Evolution. The paper is a point-by-point rebuttal ...

At the heart of Sri Aurobindo’s notion of the triple transformation of human consciousness lies a unique reshaping of the ...