Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis occurred, where life emerged from non-life. Imagine a hot, watery mix of ...

Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a mysterious human ancestor.

A collection of bones from Casablanca holds important new clues to the origins of modern humans and Neanderthals.

Our species, Homo sapiens, has been evolving for more than 300,000 years, but the story of human origins starts much earlier.

Many people today simply assume that our evolution has quietly ended with the development of the modern human. It's easy to think that medicine, science, and modern living have made us "perfect" or ...

A new study from Northwestern University is reshaping how scientists think about brain evolution. The research suggests that ...

Humans are the only primates that run nearly naked under the sun. Here’s how this biological tradeoff reshaped how our ...

Scientists find genetic mutation, millions of years ago. Oct. 12, 2011 — -- About three million years ago human predecessors embarked on a new course that would forever alter the evolution of our ...

A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution, published by Oxford University Press, finds that the relatively high rate of Autism-spectrum disorders in humans is likely due to how humans evolved in ...

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