Humans really do rule the world. We took over fast and far, more than any other wild vertebrates. We inhabit nearly every ...

Forget Survival Of The Fittest. Humans Conquered Our Planet By Sharing Ideas. In A Nutshell Humans spread across nearly every habitat on Earth in around 300,000 years, a feat that biology alone would ...

Discover the latest news, features and articles about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ...

An analysis of ancient and modern DNA suggests the extent of convergent evolution in different peoples around the world is ...

A new study shows cultural evolution helped humans expand across Earth far faster than genetic change alone could achieve.

Human evolution is a story writ slow. It’s been about 3.8 billion years since life on Earth emerged and steadily began to spread its reach from the tidal pools to the oceans to ...

Humans appear to be set apart from much of the animal kingdom, even if we do say so ourselves. While we often credit our survival to superior intellect and our hyper-competitive spirit, a new study ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 years ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

Scientists rebuilt the face of “Little Foot,” a 3.67-million-year-old fossil, uncovering new clues about early human ...

Where do we come from and how did we evolve into the beings and bodies we are today? The new book "Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution" argues for a better ...

Many people hold the view that evolution in humans has come to a halt. But while modern medicine and technologies have changed the environment in which evolution operates, many scientists are in ...