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

New research suggests that the unique way human placentas produce sex hormones during pregnancy may have been a key driver ...

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

Scopes trial, in which a Dayton, Tennessee, teacher was charged with violating state law by teaching biological evolution, ...

Thomas Mulligan examines the theory that magic mushrooms may have influenced human evolution.

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

Is the internet still human? Discover how AI and bots are reshaping online content and the unsettling rise of the Dead ...

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 ...

In 1921, William Bell Riley admonished his opponents that they should “cease from shoveling in dirt on living men,” for the ...

Two-million-year-old teeth transform theory of prehistoric human evolution. Changes in the appearance of ancient teeth could act as a new evolutionary marker, writes Ian Towle ...

There are 40 cat species (not taking into account the various breeds of domesticated cats, which are over 70) naturally ...