Our brains are large compared with other animals, so it is tempting to assume there was an evolutionary advantage to them – ...

For nearly 30 years, a landmark study shaped how scientists understood the relationship between brain and body size in ...

Is there really such a thing as human nature? The answer lies between two old extremes, and getting it right shapes how we face AI, authoritarianism, and climate.

Researchers have identified a previously unknown fossil ape from Egypt that could alter long-held ideas about the origins of ...

Hundreds of hominin fossils reveal that human body size remained stable for ages before a sharp increase in early members of ...

This video traces the human evolutionary tree from great apes to modern Homo sapiens, explaining the difference between ...

A study of chimps, gorillas and other great apes, including human children, sheds light on how laughter has evolved.

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors to modern humans, researchers now see a tangled, branching tree with ...

Early humans experienced a 'growth spurt' around two million years ago, making it easier for them to travel long distances, a ...

A new Yale-led study provides one of the most detailed and comprehensive analyses to date of genetic variation in human populations in Oceania, filling a major gap in representation in genomics ...

New fossil discoveries are reshaping scientists’ understanding of a pivotal chapter in human evolution, revealing that several human ancestor lineages lived side by side nearly 3 million years ago.