A stunning discovery in China is shaking up what we thought we knew about human evolution. Scientists have uncovered a ...

The research team at the Atapuerca archaeological sites in Burgos, Spain, has just broken its own record by discovering, for ...

Despite more than  200 years of archaeological discoveries that disprove this Creation Myth as just that - a myth, a ...

This, in a nutshell, is the heart of the stoned ape theory, or the idea that our impressive cognitive capabilities, like affinities for art and language; self-awareness; and an understanding of ...

The story about our ancestors can change at any moment thanks to the tireless work of researchers. In 2022, a team of experts unearthed fragments of a human skull in the Sima del E ...

Studies have suggested that genes under strong sexual selection tend to evolve rapidly, particularly those associated with ...

Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ...

Modern birds are the living relatives of dinosaurs. Take a look at the features of flightless birds like chickens and ...

"Our history is far richer and more complex than we imagined," said human evolutionary geneticist Aylwyn Scally.

Evolution is the process of heritable change in populations of organisms over multiple generations. Evolutionary biology is the study of this process, which can occur through mechanisms including ...

It includes topics such as the evolution of genome structure, the genetic basis of speciation and adaptation, and genetic change in response to selection within populations. Organisms display non ...