This video traces the human evolutionary tree from great apes to modern Homo sapiens, explaining the difference between ...

(Volodymyr Yakimchuk/Creatas Video+/Getty Images Plus) A seismic shift in the selection pressures acting on humans may have ...

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

Kayleigh explains why her playlist title “Hominids” is not wrong: hominids include all great apes, while hominins include ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain ...

What makes the human brain distinctive? A new study published in Cell identifies two genes linked to human brain features and provides a road map to discover many more. The research could lead to ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may be the result of millions of years of evolution. Rapid neuronal evolution in humans is likely ASD’s genetic cause, new research suggests. Though autism can cause ...