The whites of your eyes are not an accident. They are, scientists now believe, one of the most sophisticated social ...

(Volodymyr Yakimchuk/Creatas Video+/Getty Images Plus) A seismic shift in the selection pressures acting on humans may have ...

Humans really do rule the world. We took over fast and far, more than any other wild vertebrates. We inhabit nearly every ...

A new study shows cultural evolution helped humans expand across Earth far faster than genetic change alone could achieve.

A 7.2-million-year-old femur found in Bulgaria reveals early signs of upright walking and reopens the debate on human origins ...

Human evolution is a story writ slow. It’s been about 3.8 billion years since life on Earth emerged and steadily began to ...

An analysis of ancient and modern DNA suggests the extent of convergent evolution in different peoples around the world is ...

Forget Survival Of The Fittest. Humans Conquered Our Planet By Sharing Ideas. In A Nutshell Humans spread across nearly every ...

The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Berkshire Community College will host two talks in its Distinguished Speakers Series, featuring Steven Reed Nelson on electricity’s role in human evolution and ...

Little Foot, a 3.67 million-year-old human ancestor, is getting a digital facial reconstruction after her skull was crushed in a cave.

Why are 90% of people right-handed and 10% left-handed? A modification of the well-known fighting hypothesis aims to explain ...