Humans didn’t evolve from any ape species alive today, evolution isn’t a ladder leading toward increasingly “advanced” ...

Human and chimpanzee genomes are more than 98% identical, and the genes themselves barely differ. The changes that make us ...

Some scientists say humans may be entering a new phase of evolution, one in which culture is becoming more powerful than genes in shaping our survival and future. At the heart of that idea is a ...

On the right is a depiction of an early Homo human ancestor characterized by relatively greater bone strength of the femur in the thigh compared to the humerus in the arm. To the left is a depiction ...

The study has found genetic evidence that modern humans have inherited DNA from two previously unidentified extinct populations for which there are at present no known fossils.

Natural selection has long been considered the driving force behind human evolution. But a landmark study of 87 fossil skulls spanning the past two million years suggests the story is far more complex ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The chin is one of our most familiar features, yet ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

Construction litters the University of Oregon’s campus. From the high-rise apartment buildings being built down 13th Avenue to the various... Boise State University showed up to Autzen Stadium ready ...

Human aging is not what natural selection failed to prevent. It is what happens when selection simply has nothing left to act on. There’s something unsettling about the fact that the human body starts ...

Williams' third book about evolutionary psychology, a controversial field often drawn on (and distorted) by the manosphere, ...