This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

The origins of consciousness date back about 540 million years ago, when animal bodies became more complex. Feelings like ...

In most cases, evolution is a pretty slow process, taking hundreds if not thousands of years—but when humans enter the ...

A new study suggests rapid evolution of widespread neurons in humans may explain higher autism prevalence, showing natural ...

It’s not always the best-adapted animal that survives. Sometimes, it’s the one that exploits its fellow creatures ...

For the first time, scientists have reconstructed the ancient genomes of human betaherpesvirus 6A and 6B (HHV-6A/B) from ...

A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

A seven-million-year-old fossil may rewrite human origins, showing our ancestors were walking upright far earlier than anyone expected.

Researchers find Apennine brown bears evolved into a smaller, less aggressive animal after centuries of coexistence with ...

New study of 7-million-year-old fossils from Chad proves Sahelanthropus tchadensis walked upright while still climbing trees.