Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a ...

Human evolution is often told as a tidy story of adaptation, yet some of our most familiar body parts still defy straightforward explanation. From the jut of the human chin to the curve of the outer ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

Organisms have continued to evolve by accumulating genetic variation while being danced by natural selection. However, a research team at the University of Maine has made the claim that 'human ...