A new study concludes that the speed at which the human brain evolved may help explain why our species experiences autism.

What makes the human brain different from that of other primates has long been a question. A new study suggests that the ...

A deformed human skull discovered over thirty years ago in central China is now upending what researchers believed they ...

Scientists have reexamined a badly crushed skull discovered back in 1990 in Hubei Province, China — known as Yunxian 2 — and ...

Human evolution has often been depicted as a process of adaptation, where natural selection and genetic changes drive species ...

Researchers from France, China, the UK, and Greece revealed that the Petralona cranium is at least 286,000 years old, placing it firmly in the Middle Pleistocene era. A new scientific study has shed ...

This week, researchers identified a key driver of pancreatic cancer spread. Oral bacteria were linked to Parkinson's disease ...

A recent study dramatically pushes back the date for the emergence of our species, though some researchers call for further evidence ...

Human Evolution 140,000-year-old child's skull may have been part modern human, part Neanderthal — but not everyone is convinced Human Evolution 1 million-year-old skull from China holds clues to the ...

Scientists digitally reconstructed a 1 million-year-old skull unearthed in China. The analysis suggests it may have belonged ...

A newly reconstructed 1-million-year-old skull from central China may rewrite key chapters of human evolution. Researchers ...

The significant push back in the date of origin of modern-day humans is notable. It indicates that, in the last 800,000 years ...