Our understanding of human ancestry has changed dramatically since the discovery of Lucy the ancient hominin 50 years ago.

Humans and relatives evolved larger brains through gradual changes within species, not sudden leaps. This study challenges ...

There is a great deal of embryology and comparative anatomy in the book, but there is very little ætiology, and the English title “The Evolution of Man” is rather misleading. The original ...

A new laboratory study in mice suggests that primates like humans evolved large brains with a helping hand from microbes that ...

HEFEI — Chinese scientists have unearthed dozens of human fossils dating back 300,000 years, the earliest evidence in East ...

How did humans evolve into the big-brained, bipedal ape that we are today? This article examines the fossil evidence of our 6 million year evolution. Darwin's great insight, and the unifying ...

Chimpanzees use tools in sequences, planning and adapting actions like humans. This suggests the roots of complex human ...

Imagine our early human ancestors standing in the ancient landscapes, thoughtfully examining rocks, deciding which to use for ...

Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection made us rethink our place in the world. The idea that humans shared a common ancestor with apes was a challenge to the foundations of ...

We are not requiring that they follow the particular route that led to the evolution of humans. There may be many different evolutionary pathways, each unlikely, but the sum of the number of ...