Many people believe that we humans have conquered nature through the wonders of civilization and technology. Some also believe that because we are different from other creatures, we have complete ...

Fossils dating back 773,000 years from Thomas Quarry I in Morocco shed new light on the shared ancestry of Homo sapiens, Neandertals, and Denisovans. An international team of researchers has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Everything that is alive today has evolved, including human beings. Our ancestors evolved many traits that helped them survive in ...

The chin is one of our most familiar features, yet scientists still debate why we evolved it. Here’s a breakdown of what we ...

Artificial intelligence allows tracing the evolution of genetic control elements in the developing mammalian cerebellum.

© Philipp Gunz/MPI EVA Leipzig Who came before us? This question has always intrigued scientists. Fossils recently unearthed in Morocco could help us solve this enigma. A discovery in Morocco The 21 ...

At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

Every step you take depends on a structure most people rarely think about. The pelvis sits at the center of the body and ...

For most mammals, fur is essential for survival. Humans lost it anyway and didn’t just survive, they adapted. Fossil and ...