Discover the latest news, features and articles about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ...

Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis occurred, where life emerged from non-life. Imagine a hot, watery mix of ...

Professor Tim Coulson describes evolution as a gradual process that alters living organisms over generations. The mechanism ...

Charles Darwin, a biologist of the 19th century, advocated a " natural selection (theory) theory" that species will evolve by leaving descendants what is adapted to the natural environment by ...

Discover why the human chin evolution mystery still puzzles scientists. Explore fossil evidence, theories, and expert insights. Read now.

Ancient volcanic eruptions may hold the key to pin down a timeline of early human evolution. Volcanic ash layers in Kenya’s Turkana Basin help date early human fossils more precisely High-precision ...

The development of AI is expected to bring about major changes in society, but the impact of AI will not be limited to society, but may also affect the evolution of humans as a living organism. Robert ...

Evidence is mounting that the evolution of our species is more convoluted than we imagined — more like a braided stream than a branching tree. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

A paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution finds that the relatively high rate of autism-spectrum disorders in humans is likely due to how humans evolved in the past. The paper is titled "A general ...

A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution, published by Oxford University Press, finds that the relatively high rate of Autism-spectrum disorders in humans is likely due to how humans evolved in ...