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

Human evolution, traditionally driven by natural selection, may have reached a point where technological and medical ...

The thinking of early theorists was that our evolution was a coordinated, linear process. Our ancestors' brains grew steadily ...

Footprints from two hominin species found in Kenya suggest they lived and interacted together over a million years ago. Over ...

The 3.2-million-year-old human ancestor known as Lucy rose to fame through an incredible combination of circumstances ...

One of the most fascinating periods in the evolution of the human lineage is the appearance of the first ancestors capable of ...

The Julurens — or “big head” people — are twisting scientists’ long-accepted understanding of human evolution. How humans came to be is largely understood to have been a linear process ...

HEFEI, Dec. 8 (Xinhua) -- Chinese scientists have discovered dozens of human fossils dating back 300,000 years, which are the earliest ones found in East Asia in terms of the evolution process towards ...

"Brain areas involved in processing numbers can be delineated and extra care taken to avoid damaging these areas during ...

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

The putamen is usually related to functions such as movement and cognition, but rarely to higher-level aspects of human ...