This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

A Ball State professor was part of a study linking tooth enamel to human evolution, including shifts tied to meat-eating and ...

The 2-Million-Year Jump: The primary transition to modern human body proportions was a sudden evolutionary leap 2 to 2.5 million years ago, driven by Homo erectus/ergaster and Homo rudolfensis, rather ...

(Volodymyr Yakimchuk/Creatas Video+/Getty Images Plus) A seismic shift in the selection pressures acting on humans may have brought us to a major turning point in our evolutionary journey. According ...

A stunning discovery buried deep inside a cave for 300,000 years has revealed a lost chapter in human history.

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how human-specific DNA changes shaped human evolution. It's just over a decade since ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A reconstruction of the crushed skull labelled Yunxian 2, which has features that are closer to species thought to have existed ...

The time has come to reconsider an outdated understanding of human evolution: it was ...

One of the biggest mysteries in human evolution has just been solved. In 2010, a groundbreaking genetic analysis revealed that east Asia was once home to a previously unknown group of enigmatic ...

論文が掲載された学術誌の名前を当初、「ジャーナル・オブ・ヒューマン・エボリューション（Journal of Human Evolution）」としていましたが、正しくは「ヒューマン・エボリューション（Human Evolution）」でした。 「時事トレンド」に注目！グローバルな視点で ...

As the causative agents of infectious diseases, pathogens have been a major threat to human health and survival throughout our history. Consequently, pathogen infections have shaped human evolution — ...