Palaeontologist Steve Brusatte's The Story of Birds offers an excellent and sometimes startling account of bird evolution, ...

Rather than a single ancestral line steadily evolving toward modern humans, the evidence points to an evolutionary “bush” of ...

Many scientists point to cultural evolution, the process by which knowledge, customs and technology spread over time. But ...

It is generally accepted by archaeologists that modern humans originated in Africa and dispersed worldwide, while other ...

The human lie isn’t a flaw so much as a feature, one that evolution spent hundreds of millions of years perfecting.

From pugs to Persian cats, human aesthetic preferences are driving a new wave of convergent evolution.

Based on Coll Macià's upper-bound generation interval of about 30 years, there have been at least 10,000 generations of ...

A Crash Course In Human Evolution With Anthropologist Chris Stringer' What was the timeline of human evolution? What was our ...

Humans take nearly 18 to 25 years to reach full maturity, far longer than most mammals. This slow human growth is driven by ...

Ancient grooves on human teeth, once hailed as evidence of tooth-picking, may simply be the result of natural wear, according ...

This roundup highlights five major discoveries from 2021 linked to human evolution and prehistory. The video covers ancient ...

Anthropologist and author David Samson examines how the story of human sleep unfolded in his new book, “The Sleepless Ape.” ...