Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

The human body is a machine whose many parts—from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and ...

Our human evolution workshops were conducted with well-resourced and historically disadvantaged schools attending. The grade ...

An evolutionary chart of different human ancestors. “Seeing Lucy’s face is like glimpsing a bridge to the distant past, offering a visual connection to human evolution,” said Moraes.

The discovery of Lucy, a 3.2 million-year-old skeleton, changed our theory of human evolution forever. The discovery is celebrating its 50-year anniversary, and continues to capture human imagination.

This technological leap has resulted in a dazzling discovery: there was not one, but at least three separate waves of recent human–Neanderthal admixture in the last 250,000 years. The earliest ...

For decades, the dominant theory in human evolution suggested that modern humans descended from a single ancestral lineage in Africa. However, groundbreaking new research from the University of ...

The turn of the next millennium is still a long way off, but that hasn’t stopped scientists from simulating what future human evolution might look like when the year 3000 hits. The result? A ...

5 fast facts about human evolution. Humans and chimpanzees shared an ancestor 7 million years ago. All humans today are descended from people who evolved in Africa.