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 study, published July 6, 2026, in the journal Nature Communications, suggests that two of the best-known trends in ...

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 ...

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.