New research reveals a hidden geometric ratio in Leonardo’s drawing that may define the endpoint of human evolution toward ...

South Africa has one of the world's richest fossil records of hominins (humans and their fossil ancestors). But many ...

A new documentary brings early human history to life with a "scientifically accurate" collection of hyper-real 3D models.

A 140,000-year-old hybrid child's skull found in Israel shows traits of both Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, rewriting the ...

Images released ahead of a new BBC science series depict Homo floresiensis, Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis plus the ...

In this new series, Human, paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi reveals our incredible story across 300,000 years of human ...

Human evolution, traditionally driven by natural selection, may have reached a point where technological and medical advancements are interfering with the age-old processes that shaped our species.

Humans Human evolution: The astounding new story of the origin of our species. Forget the simple out-of-Africa idea of how humans evolved. A huge array of fossils and genome studies has completely ...

"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 ...