For thousands of years, humans have selectively bred dogs to fulfill specific roles, ranging from guarding and hunting to ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain ...

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 bold question-askers at What If examine how merging with machines could mark the next phase in human evolution.

"Evolution is part deterministic—there are rules for how systems evolve—and part random—mutations and environmental changes are primarily unpredictable," Thomas Mailund, an associate ...

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 ...

Maybe, with a little luck, he would make another discovery that would change the map of human evolution. A version of this story appears in the February 2025 issue of National Geographic magazine.

Human evolution, it turns out, looks more like a "braided stream" of diverging and converging lineages than an inclined plane of slowly improving posture. To map this braided stream, ...

Human evolution is a complex topic that's easy to misunderstand and many myths persist about the past, present, and future of the human species.

Where do we come from and how did we evolve into the beings and bodies we are today? The new book "Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution" argues for a better ...

Still, theories of human evolution have been criticized for overemphasizing the explanatory power of climate. Neanderthals, some of our closest extinct relatives, ...