Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that modern humans emerged from two long-separated ancestral groups, not just one. This ...

The study showed that populations don’t lose their “evolvability,” even if conditions remain the same for many generations.

Scientists have uncovered a “hidden chapter” in the history of human evolution and it turns out it’s much more complex than previously thought. It’s known that modern day humans, known scientifically ...

On this week's episode: is our universe inside a black hole, Antarctic explorers, tracking teenaged turtles, and ...

Researchers discovered uniquely human neuroanatomical features in a study comparing human brains to macaque and chimpanzee ...

"Our history is far richer and more complex than we imagined," said human evolutionary geneticist Aylwyn Scally.

From two weeks onwards, feather development in the embryos partially returned to normal. The chicks with the altered pathway ...

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe.

"We thought they were basically all going to be fried because the entire universe turned into a vat of boiling oil." ...

Scientists uncovered a key genetic pathway in the origin of feathers, but they found that evolution is stubborn in turning ...