Artistic representations of ancient humans often show large men with bulging muscles – but our ancestors were actually ...

Scientists say some of the traits that define modern humans may have evolved only after long-standing biological and cultural ...

A study quantifies for the first time the speed at which ape species have evolved, showing that the 'sapiens' skull and face evolved twice as fast as other species due to cognitive advantages and ...

Humans evolved large brains and flat faces at a surprisingly rapid pace compared to other apes, likely reflecting the evolutionary advantages of these traits, finds a new analysis of ape skulls by UCL ...

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 ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. If I tried to recap all the new fossils, new methods and ...

A new paper by evolutionary anthropologists Colin Shaw (University of Zurich) and Daniel Longman (Loughborough University) argues that modern life has outpaced human evolution. The study suggests that ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral population in Africa. By analyzing genetic data from diverse modern African ...

Wisdom teeth are more than just an uncomfortable dentist appointment. They are evidence of how human evolution cherry-picked parts of our body that ‘deserved’ to evolve. There is a certain irony in ...