New research challenges long-standing assumptions about human evolution, revealing that natural selection has been more ...

When our distant ancestors first traded nomadic life for farming, villages, and permanent homes, you might assume that the ...

The idea that modern humans inherited DNA from Neanderthal ancestors is one of the 21st century’s most celebrated discoveries in evolution. It may not be that simple.

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 ...

A world of self-improving machines has lived in fiction for more than a century. What gives that old fear new force now is ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. If I tried to recap all the new fossils, new methods and ...

Many people today simply assume that our evolution has quietly ended with the development of the modern human. It's easy to think that medicine, science, and modern living have made us "perfect" or ...

The brain of a rat in which a fluorescent protein has been used to highlight transplanted human brain cells - Copyright Stanford University/AFP Sergiu PASCA The brain ...