Humans are evolving faster than previously thought, with studies revealing shrinking jaws and a decrease in wisdom teeth due to changes in diet and processed foods. Research indicates that humans are ...

People alive today might have ended up more like Neanderthals had it not been for a quirk of evolution, scientists have found. Neanderthals interbred with their close human relatives, homo sapiens, ...

3.8 – 3 million years ago - Australopithecus afarensis, an early hominid - a term used to describe early humans - which walked on two legs, lived in eastern Africa. The species was similar to apes in ...

The human body's size and shape has gone through four main stages of evolution. This is according to a study of fossils found at Sima de los Huesos in Sierra de Atapuerca in northern Spain. Dated to ...

Ancient volcanic eruptions may hold the key to pin down a timeline of early human evolution. Volcanic ash layers in Kenya’s Turkana Basin help date early human fossils more precisely High-precision ...

How did humans become human? Understanding when, where and in what environmental conditions our early ancestors lived is central to solving the puzzle of human evolution. Unfortunately, pinning down a ...

Explore Neanderthal facts, from looks to lifestyle and abilities. These early humans are far more similar to us than once believed. Wanting to understand who we are, where we come from and how we ...

HUMANS evolved from semi-aquatic apes which lived in water, according to a bizarre new evolution theory which aims to explain why humans are so different from our chimpanzee cousins. Some ...

Our species emerged as a result of a mind-bending number of random events and mutations, but it may also have been inevitable that humans, or something like us, would walk the Earth. What would happen ...

Actually, this shot — taken on the iconic zebra crossing outside Abbey Road Studios — is of cast members of TOTEM. The new Cirque du Soleil production, which arrives at the Royal Albert Hall in 2019, ...