Modern medicine’s ability to keep us alive makes it tempting to think human evolution may have stopped. Better healthcare disrupts a key driving force of evolution by keeping some people alive longer, ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

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 ...

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the process differed from the evolution of chimpanzees. For the study, published ...

A futurist has claimed that there are three phases of human evolution, and our species is currently in the second phase. Jeffrey Charles Hardy, who founded the non-profit Care for Peace, developed a ...

Richard Wrangham's forthcoming book The Goodness Paradox explores the strange relationship between virtue and violence in human evolution. CURTIS ABRAHAM interviewed Wrangham for The Ecologist ...

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...

Take a journey through time as we trace the origins of human evolution. Here's an overview of how we — Homo sapiens — evolved from our early ancestors. Since Darwin revealed his seminal theory of ...

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the process differed from the evolution of chimpanzees. For the study, published ...

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 ...