A new analysis argues that this daily work of processing and cooking food helped reshape human bodies and social life. It explores how fire, tools, and cooperation driven by women changed humans’ ...

Human newborns arrive remarkably underdeveloped. The reason lies in a deep evolutionary trade-off between big brains, bipedalism and the limits of motherhood.

The story of Charles Darwin’s life. His theory of evolution changed the way we understood our place in the world.

Like other living creatures, humans have been shaped by evolution. Over time, we have developed – and continue to develop – traits that help us survive.

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A reconstruction of the crushed skull labelled Yunxian 2, which has features that are closer to species thought to have existed ...

Humans have lived with fire for over a million years. Scientists now say burn injuries may have influenced human evolution and healing.

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

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 ...

Learn how repeated burn injuries may have acted as a form of natural selection, influencing human genes linked to healing and immune response.

The evolution of the human species is marked by an increase in brain size. Now new research suggests that could be partly ...