Human evolution is often told as a tidy story of adaptation, yet some of our most familiar body parts still defy ...

Neuroscientist Nikolay Kukushkin spoke to Live Science about how human consciousness evolved.

Many of the ancient southern Africans, including those who lived between about 10,200 and 1,400 years ago, "fall outside the ...

Ancient Chinese astronomers observed a solar eclipse in 709 BCE with remarkable detail. These old records are now helping ...

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new ...

It seems that southern Africa provided an ecological refuge where people adapted successfully for more than 200,000 years – ...

Modern humans did not evolve from monkeys or any other animal that lives today. Humans continue to evolve but the traits we pass down aren't always for the species' betterment. "Survival of the ...

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Humans, who are classified among the five great apes, are closest genetically, i.e., DNA similarity, to chimpanzees (98.8%-99%) and bonobos (98.8%). [Blueringmedia ...

Scientists have finally cracked the mystery wrapped around 3.4 million-year-old fossils called the “Burtele Foot” which was ...

On November 24, 1859, Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species and transformed our understanding of life on Earth by ...