A palaeoanthropologist is being honoured for his work tracing the evolution and origins of humans. A blue plaque will be installed at the former home of Louis Leakey in High Street, Foxton, ...

How did humans evolve into the big-brained, bipedal ape that we are today? This article examines the fossil evidence of our 6 million year evolution. Darwin's great insight, and the unifying ...

Is Piltdown Man a "missing link"? Both critics and proponents of evolution eagerly await the discovery of a "missing link" between humans and other primates. The fossil skull called Piltdown Man ...

The evolution of humans on Earth may not be entirely exceptional. That is because intelligent life is likely to form if ...

It’s well-known that fire enabled the survival of early humans by providing warmth as well as a means to cook food and forge better weapons. Yet research into cognitive evolution—a field of ...