The findings have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers said.

In 1990, an ancient human skull was unearthed in China's Hubei Province that was so badly deformed during fossilization that ...

Scientists digitally reconstructed a 1 million-year-old skull unearthed in China. The analysis suggests it may have belonged to an ancestor of the Denisovans and “Dragon Man.” ...

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 ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...

The significant push back in the date of origin of modern day humans is notable. It indicates that, in the last 800,000 years, most large-brained humans can be traced to just five major branches: ...

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors to modern humans, researchers now see a tangled, branching tree with ...

In testing the genetic material of current populations in Africa and comparing against existing fossil evidence of early Homo sapiens populations there, researchers have uncovered a new model of human ...

The story of how us humans—and other mammals—got our noses may have just gotten more complicated. This is the conclusion of a new study by researchers from Japan who have studied how the face develops ...

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Modern humans did not evolve from monkeys or any other animal that lives today. Humans continue to evolve but the traits we pass down aren't always for the species' betterment. "Survival of the ...