Bronze Age natural selection accelerated human evolution, challenging long-held beliefs about genetic adaptation.

Speech is a crowning achievement of human evolution, the skill that separates us from every other animal. So, it would stand to reason that evolving this capability required some enormous leap in ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The story of how us humans—and other mammals—got our noses may have ...

Miners in Zambia unearthed the Broken Hill skull in 1921, a fossil initially baffling scientists with its mix of modern and ...

In 2008, Matthew Berger's accidental discovery of Australopithecus sediba while chasing his dog dramatically changed our ...

New research challenges long-standing assumptions about human evolution, revealing that natural selection has been more ...

A new study shows how the mismatch between where fossils are preserved and where humans likely lived may influence our understanding of early human evolution. Much of the early human fossil record ...

A new study shows the virus could have doubled the frequency of genetic variants in a South African province if effective ...

Some of the smallest organisms might have influenced our own evolutionary path. A new study has found that the distribution ...

Human babies arrive with 100 extra bones for the same reason birth is the most dangerous event in mammalian life. Both facts ...