A reconstruction of a one-million-year-old skull suggested that our species started to emerge hundreds of thousands of years ...

Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary ...

Are humans evolving more through culture than DNA? A new study explores how medicine, technology, and institutions may guide ...

When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the ...

A new study suggests culture is reshaping human evolution faster than DNA, redefining how our species adapts, survives, and thrives.

In a remarkable turn of events, scientists have stumbled upon non-human DNA from ancient fossils, shaking the very ...

The skull's discovery indicates that our species may have emerged half a million years earlier than previously thought.

A fossilized skull unearthed in central China may push back the emergence of Homo sapiens by at least half a million years, ...

In 1990, a farmer in central China stumbled on a skull so battered it looked more like a pancake than a fossil. For decades, ...

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...

New research suggests that the evolution of the human brain may explain why autism is more common in humans than in other ...

A million-year-old human skull found in China suggests that our species, Homo sapiens, began to emerge at least half a million years earlier than we thought, researchers are claiming in a new study.It ...