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

and essential for the ultimate evolution of humanity. The researchers here challenge the hard steps model by asking whether ...

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

Find out if you're part Neanderthal, about the evolution of laughter ... for centuries to pinpoint the qualities that separate human beings from the millions of other animal species that have ...

afarensis as "the ape that walked upright" makes it a celebrity species in the story of human evolution ... Fine details also reveal a human-like step: weight fell first on the heel, then on ...

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe.

He’s best known for popularising the theory of evolution in his book, On the Origin of Species, but Charles Darwin also had some very unsubstantiated ideas about human beings... In a later book ...

According to an alternative model of how intelligent life emerges on planets like Earth, the existence of aliens—and human ...

This article examines the fossil evidence of our 6 million year evolution. Darwin's great insight ... The fossil record, along with studies of human and ape DNA, indicate that humans shared ...

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. Let’s talk about the biggest coincidence in human ...

Ian Randall is Newsweek's Deputy Science Editor, based in Royston, U.K. His focus is reporting on science and health. He has covered archeology, geology, and physics extensively. Ian joined ...

"It suggests that the evolution of complex ... because steps such as the origin of life, the development of complex cells and the emergence of human intelligence are improbable based on Carter's ...