The skull replicas on this table belong to a whole slew of distant human cousins and ancestors. Taken together, the contents of this table represent 4.5 million years of human evolution.

The pelvis is often called the keystone of upright locomotion. More than any other part of our lower body, it has been ...

Now a new study in Nature led by Harvard scientists reveals two key genetic shifts that remodeled the pelvis to help human ancestors become the upright bipeds ...

BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK—The human body has gone through four main stages of evolution, according to an international team of scientists who studied fossils from the Sima de los Huesos in Spain’s ...

New Ethiopian fossils show early Homo and Australopithecus lived together, revealing a complex human evolution story.

Oceans set stage for human evolution Temperature changes off the coast dried out East Africa 2 million years ago ...

Jeffrey Charles Hardy claims human evolution is paused due to our dominance over nature and urges us to shape the next stage toward peace and sustainability.

People thrive all across the globe, at every temperature, altitude and landscape. How did human beings become so successful at adapting to whatever environment we wind up in?

H.G. Wells’s fictional vision of human evolution in “The Time Machine” (1895) is a bifurcation of our species 800,000 years in the future. Wells was much more accurate about the direction of ...

Advances in genetics, technology, and environment are shaping the future course of human evolution. Sophie Turner says ...