Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

The study questions the long-held belief that northern Africa became arid around 3 million years ago, which coincides with ...

The discovery of a Lucy, a 3.2 million-year-old skeleton changed our theory of human evolution forever. The discovery is ...

We looked at fossil teeth from hominins (humans and our closest extinct relatives) from the Omo Valley in Ethiopia, where we can see traces of more than two million years of human evolution, as well ...

Recent discoveries using lab-grown brain organoids, or "mini-brains," suggest that testosterone increases brain size while ...

ABOVE: ©istock.com, ehrlif F or the past 150 years, scientists and laypeople alike have accepted a “savanna” scenario of human evolution. The theory, primarily based on fossil evidence, suggests that ...

Human evolution ; Evolution: Theory of How Humans Got Our Noses Challenged. Published Mar 05, 2025 at 1:24 PM EST Updated Mar 05, 2025 at 9:22 PM EST. By . Ian ...

Evolution of the Eye: When evolution skeptics want to attack Darwin's theory, they often point to the human eye. How could something so complex, they argue, have developed through random mutations ...

The discovery of Lucy, a 3.2 million-year-old skeleton, changed our theory of human evolution forever. The discovery is celebrating its 50-year anniversary, and continues to capture human imagination.