When Ella al-Shamahi went to college, she thought she'd be able to prove Darwin's theory of evolution was wrong. Instead, she ...

A lost chapter in human evolution has been revealed after an analysis of modern DNA found that we come from not one but two ancestral populations—ones that drifted apart and later reconnected long ...

A recent study proposes a new paradigm for understanding the role of carrion in the subsistence of human populations ...

Human evolution is a story writ slow. It’s been about 3.8 billion years since life on Earth emerged and steadily began to ...

In his new BBC show, Jim Al-Khalili journeys through hundreds of millions of years of brain evolution. Live Science spoke to ...

The findings of this study suggest that the first humans may have originated from apes that were accustomed to living in two ...

John Gowlett receives funding from PAST Africa and Wenner-Gren Foundation, and his work has previously been supported by The Leverhulme Trust. He is associated with a new series of podcasts on human ...

Amna Nawaz: We often talk about human origins as the evolution of man, but what if we saw it as the evolution of woman? A new book argues for a better understanding of our beginnings, with critical ...

You've seen it before. The chart of an ape walking on all fours, shedding its hair, standing upright, grabbing a spear and growing taller to become a modern human. This diagram called 'The March of ...

The peppered moth is an iconic example of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection. For centuries peppered moths (Biston betularia) were common in the forests around Manchester, ...

Discover interesting facts about how evolution works, the different patterns that can emerge from evolution, how quickly organisms can evolve, and whether evolution is a random or ordered process When ...

A team of researchers discovered a new source of oxygen at the bottom of the ocean, and it's discovery has led to more questions being asked than answered. The discovery was detailed in a new paper ...