If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

Human Evolution has come pretty far during our time on Earth. But, do you ever wonder, what humans could evolve to look like ...

A fossil ape discovered in northern Egypt is reshaping the story of human evolution. The species, Masripithecus, lived about 17 to 18 million years ago and may sit very close to the ancestor of all ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new reconstruction (center) of the crushed Yunxian 2 skull (right) found in China is seen with another squashed skull (left) ...

One hundred years ago, a small town in eastern Tennessee captured the attention of the entire country. A biology teacher in Dayton was accused of teaching human evolution to his students — which was ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists digitally reconstructed the fossilized skull, which is between 940,000 and 1.1 million years old, to aid their research ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...

Two of the traits that set modern humans apart from non-human primates are taller stature and a higher basal metabolic rate. Researchers have identified a genetic variant that contributed to the ...

In A Nutshell A linguist argues that wit, humor, and wordplay helped drive human language evolution through sexual selection, ...

Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long archaeology project in northeastern Ethiopia, indicate that two different kinds of hominins, or human ancestors, lived in the same place ...