New evidence suggests that early humans reached the Jordan Valley at least 1.9 million years ago, hundreds of thousands of ...

Could humans evolve into an entirely new species? Scientists explore how Mars colonization, genetic engineering, and ...

Recent advances in our understanding of human evolution challenge the way we currently name and classify our ancestors, according to new research from Monash University. The study, published in the ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

Human and chimpanzee genomes are more than 98% identical, and the genes themselves barely differ. The changes that make us human are thought to hide instead in the DNA that controls when and where ...

Recent research has unveiled an unexpected link between the ancient human exposure to lead and the evolutionary development of our brains. This groundbreaking study, conducted by scientists at Arizona ...

What Bruner calls “braking,” the Yale neuroscientist Amy Arnsten calls “regulation”—specifically, calcium regulation, which supports learning and memory. The failure of that system, Arnsten argues, ...

Applying new analytic methods to nearly 16,000 ancient genomes reveals natural selection has acted on hundreds, not dozens, of genes in West Eurasia over the last 10,000 years. More than half of the ...