Discover the latest news, features and articles about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ...

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

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 ...

Researchers have identified a "tipping point" about 2.7 million years ago when global climate conditions switched from being ...

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 ...

Human evolution has long been tied to growing brain size, and new research suggests prenatal hormones may have played a surprising role. By studying the relative lengths of index and ring fingers — a ...

Scientists in a recent research study have uncovered a surprising link between the 2.7 million-year-old climate tipping point and human evolution. The researchers led by the University of ...

The evolution of human hands is one of the most important – and overlooked – stories of our origin. Now, new fossil evidence ...

In his new book, Roland Ennos offers eye-opening ideas that the importance of physical power and engineering ...