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

Learn how repeated burn injuries may have acted as a form of natural selection, influencing human genes linked to healing and immune response.

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 ...

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 ...

Humans' exposure to high temperature burn injuries may have played an important role in our evolutionary development, shaping ...

Our DNA reveals extinct "ghost lineages" that shaped human evolution, painting a complex, "braided stream" of history rather than a simple progression. These ancient groups, leaving no fossils, ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

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 ...

Humans have lived with fire for over a million years. Scientists now say burn injuries may have influenced human evolution and healing.

The influence of an unknown population and its impact on intelligence was discovered in our DNA by researchers using a new method they developed. The story of human evolution just took a dramatic turn ...