A key question in human evolution explores the identity of the first human to leave Africa, and a new study offers fresh ...

Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to ...

A major evolutionary theory says most genetic changes don’t really matter, but new evidence suggests that’s not true. Researchers found that helpful mutations happen surprisingly often. The twist is ...

If Santa and his sleigh traveled at 10% the speed of light, Rudolph’s nose would be blueshifted to look orange as he ...

Oxygen detected just 300 million years after the Big Bang has caused viral claims that cosmology is wrong. But does this ...

Human evolution is not a straight line but a complex branching tree shared with other great apes. This overview explains the distinction between hominids and hominins and traces the evolutionary ...

Psychological research is showing that altruism does exist, an understanding that could lead to a more empathetic world.