An anthropologist highlights the revolutionary role of the practice, which was often led by women, and was just as crucial to ...

What can chimpanzees teach us about ourselves? A lot, says Craig Stanford, who's spent three decades studying the lives of ...

The human chin has long been fertile ground for arguments between scientists over its purpose ...

Human evolution, traditionally driven by natural selection, may have reached a point where technological and medical advancements are interfering with the age-old processes that shaped our species ...

Human evolution is a complex topic that's easy to misunderstand and many myths persist about the past, present, and future of the human species.

And now that the first stage of human evolution has concluded, he believes we’ve entered a suspended state and a second stage of evolution is coming. It’s all ours to shape.

Scientists find genetic mutation, millions of years ago. Oct. 12, 2011 — -- About three million years ago human predecessors embarked on a new course that would forever alter the evolution of ...

A lost chapter in human evolution has been revealed after an analysis of modern DNA found that we come from not one but two ancestral populations—ones that drifted apart and later reconnected ...

The nature of human evolution has to change.” The study was published Monday in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, the world’s longest-running science journal.