New research challenges long-standing assumptions about human evolution, revealing that natural selection has been more ...

This overview traces the evolutionary timeline from the great apes to modern humans, explaining where hominids and hominins ...

A mysterious ancient skull long believed to hold the key to human evolution is now at the center of a stunning scientific ...

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It’s ancient, unstoppable and strangely contagious. Here’s what science now knows about the humble yawn, and why evolution ...

There’s a theory that many of us have an “inner Neanderthal.” The idea is that Homo sapiens and a cousin species once bred, ...

Are humans natural born runners? Here’s why evolutionary and anatomical evidence suggests running was more central to our ...

On the morning of March 27, the Humanitas Ark Summit Dialogue was held in Beijing. Mr. Hu Jiaqi, founder and Chairman ...

The idea that modern humans inherited DNA from Neanderthal ancestors is one of the 21st century’s most celebrated discoveries ...

New theoretical models, published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, connect, for the first time, the magnetism at the surface of long-dead stellar remnants (white dwarfs) with recent evidence of magnetism ...

On the morning of March 27, the Humanitas Ark Summit Dialogue was held in Beijing. Mr. Hu Jiaqi, founder and Chairman ...

This question of why some branches of the tree of life explode into thousands of species, while others remain small, has shaped evolutionary biology since Charles Darwin. My colleague and I have ...