This video traces the human evolutionary tree from great apes to modern Homo sapiens, explaining the difference between ...

Early human ancestors underwent significant physical transformations over millions of years. New research challenges the idea ...

Many of the body's biggest flaws are the result of evolution building on old designs instead of starting over. Our spine, ...

Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary shift—driven not by genes, but by culture. "Human evolution seems to be changing ...

Human newborns arrive remarkably underdeveloped. The reason lies in a deep evolutionary trade-off between big brains, bipedalism and the limits of motherhood. Why is it that, compared to most other ...

Fred Spoor is at the Centre for Human Evolution Research, Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK, and in the Department of Human Origins, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, ...

WASHINGTON — Bones found in an Israeli quarry are from a branch of the human evolutionary tree and are 120,000 to 140,000 years old, scientists reported Thursday. A team of anthropologists spent years ...