When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull rewrites our understanding of human evolution, scientists have claimed.

What makes the human brain different from that of other primates has long been a question. A new study suggests that the ...

Shamahi charts humanity's evolutionary odyssey. We sat down with her to discuss the path of our species out of Africa to ...

A new study concludes that the speed at which the human brain evolved may help explain why our species experiences autism.

Scientists digitally reconstructed a 1 million-year-old skull unearthed in China. The analysis suggests it may have belonged ...

Stanford study finds rapid brain cell evolution boosted human cognition but lowered autism gene activity, raising ...

The findings have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers said.

A crushed million-year-old skull found in China that has been digitally reconstructed reopens a debate in human evolution.

More than 20 species make a nearly identical noise to warn nearby birds of brood parasites, a behavior that bridges the ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 ...