How did humans become human? Understanding when, where and in what environmental conditions our early ancestors lived is ...

Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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