Brain growth slowed down about 300,000 years ago due to energetic and climate pressures, according to a study published in ...

An ancient skull has finally shown us what the Denisovans looked like. Now it turns out they, not Neanderthals, might be our ...

New Ethiopian fossils show early Homo and Australopithecus lived together, revealing a complex human evolution story.

Human evolution is a complex topic that's easy to misunderstand and many myths persist about the past, present, and future of the human species.

“ Moving beyond the adaptationist paradigm for human evolution, and why it matters. ” Journal of Human Evolution. Vol. 174, January 2023. doi: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2022.103296. N. Zdjelar et al.

The skull has facial features that are similar to early modern humans, which scientists think began to branch away from another human ancestor known as Homo erectus sometime between 550,000 and ...

The fossilized chompers are evidence of a previously unknown hominin that coexisted with the earliest humans 2.8 million ...

The human chin has been fertile ground for arguments between scientists over its purpose. As with testicles, there are half a dozen plausible ideas to explain the evolution of the human chin.

Thanks to the uniqueness of the Homo sapiens chin, while we have a rich set of possible explanations for its evolutionary purpose, in the absence of convergent evolution, we have no sensible way of ...