New research suggests that the evolution of the human brain may explain why autism is more common in humans than in other ...

A paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution finds that the relatively high rate of autism-spectrum disorders in humans is ...

Denisovans were first discovered as another relation to modern humans in 2010—It turns out they might be our closest relative ...

The pelvis is often called the keystone of upright locomotion. More than any other part of our lower body, it has been radically altered over millions of years to allow us to accomplish our bizarre ...

Newly discovered fossils in Ethiopia show that Homo coexisted with Australopithecus 2.6 million years ago, rewriting the timeline of human evolution. Far from a straight line, early human history was ...

Fossilized teeth show that two different kinds of ancient human ancestors coexisted more than 2 million years ago. One of ...

Modern humans emerged roughly 300,000 years ago, but our genus Homo is much older. So what's the oldest human species on ...

Primate cross-species analysis of interactions between transposable elements and KRAB-ZNF genes with the new TEKRABber tool highlights human-specific interactions with potential relevance to Alzheimer ...

F or the past century and a half, the concept of evolution has primarily been wielded by those describing change of a purely ...

Micronutrients, vitamins and minerals that are part of the human diet in small amounts, may have influenced human evolution ...