New genetic research suggests centuries of human persecution may have selected for calmer behavior in Italy's rare Apennine ...

Immense progress has been made over many years of archaeology and study into human evolution, and exciting new information has been uncovered via archaeology.

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe. Using advanced analysis based ...

Ancient DNA from southern Africa is rewriting the story of our species, revealing that some early humans in this region lived ...

Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary shift—driven not by genes, but by culture. "Human evolution seems to be changing ...

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

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 ...

Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary shift — driven not by genes, but by culture. In a paper published in the Oxford ...

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

Many people hold the view that evolution in humans has come to a halt. But while modern medicine and technologies have changed the environment in which evolution operates, many scientists are in ...