The story of Charles Darwin’s life. His theory of evolution changed the way we understood our place in the world.

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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 ...

A million-year-old skull discovered in China could rewrite the history of human evolution. A new analysis of the skull published in Science suggests that our species may have emerged half a million ...

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 ...

When you learned about the history of human evolution in school, there's a good chance you were shown one all-too-familiar image. That picture probably showed a conga line of human-like creatures, ...

A million-year-old skull, Yunxian 2, reclassified as Homo longi, challenges the timeline of human evolution. This discovery suggests large-brained humans emerged earlier and diversified across Eurasia ...

New research in the Ayvalık region of Turkey, published in Taylor & Francis Online, reveals the discovery of a submerged land bridge that may have connected Anatolia to Europe, challenging previous ...