A new landmark study has uncovered evidence that challenges the long-held beliefs about human evolution.

For decades, one idea has shaped discussions about human evolution and birth: humans endure unusually difficult childbirth ...

A new analysis suggests the evolution of human body size was marked by a major turning point rather than gradual growth.

A cave on the Turkish Mediterranean coast was inhabited first by Neanderthals and then Homo sapiens, but the continuity of ...

For years, the Denisovans occupied an unusual place in the story of human evolution. They were recognised as one of our ...

A new study has examined just how mothers influence the size of their child’s head – and as a result, its brain size and ...

Pigment sampling at a claviform rock art figure in Tebellín, Spain. (Alberto Martínez Villa/Bossoms Mesa et al., Nat. Commun.

Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', ...

Based on artifacts found in a limestone cave on the Mediterranean coast, scientists think the two species might have shared ...

Genes associated with male reproductive biology appear to be under relaxed selective constraint in a primate species with low sperm competition.