It would be tempting to believe that human evolution has slowed since our ancestors left Africa 300,000 years ago. Yet a new ...

A massive study of ancient and modern DNA from thousands of West Eurasian people has identified nearly 500 genetic variants ...

From rigid brow ridges to expressive arches, your eyebrows tell a story of how human faces evolved to signal emotion, ...

Human babies arrive with 100 extra bones for the same reason birth is the most dangerous event in mammalian life. Both facts ...

Prehistoric humans in Africa may have avoided areas infested with malaria-spreading mosquitoes, a new study suggests.

Many people today simply assume that our evolution has quietly ended with the development of the modern human. It's easy to think that medicine, science, and modern living have made us "perfect" or ...

New research shows human language evolved through ancient genetic systems that regulate genes, challenging the previous idea.

Some of the smallest organisms might have influenced our own evolutionary path. A new study has found that the distribution ...