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

For years, the common belief among scientists was that human evolution had basically slowed to a crawl once we invented ...

The uvula is nearly unique to humans among mammals. An evolutionary biologist unpacks competing theories for why we evolved ...

The “Frozen Evolution” Myth A popular assumption says medicine, technology, and home comforts have put humanity beyond the ...

A vast stretch of islands across the South Pacific holds one of the oldest human stories on Earth. For tens of thousands of ...

Hundreds of hominin fossils reveal that human body size remained stable for ages before a sharp increase in early members of ...

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

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 ...

Many of the body's biggest flaws are the result of evolution building on old designs instead of starting over. Our spine, ...

Why humans have a philtrum, the groove above your lip, explained by an evolutionary biologist — from embryonic face-building ...

What will humans be like generations from now in a world transformed by artificial intelligence (AI)? Plenty of thinkers have applied themselves to questions like this, considering how AI will alter ...

A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution, published by Oxford University Press, finds that the relatively high rate of Autism-spectrum disorders in humans is likely due to how humans evolved in ...