Ahead of this year's spring game, all eyes are on this year's incoming transfers and how they'll fit into head coach Dan Lanning's squad next... On the day of Oregon’s Spring Game, the man who has ...

A growing number of discoveries are reshaping long-held ideas about human evolution, from unexpectedly early stone tools to ...

Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to unravel in 2025. Analysis of DNA extracted from the fossil electrified the ...

Human aging is not what natural selection failed to prevent. It is what happens when selection simply has nothing left to act ...

Over the course of our long, complicated evolutionary history, humans have seen our brains triple in size, now weighing in at roughly three pounds on average. At some point along the way, humans ...

A skull fragment discovered over fifty years ago on the banks of the Elbe River in Germany has finally yielded its secrets. Long considered by some researchers to be a rare Neanderthal-modern human ...

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This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

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

Researchers have demonstrated that intensified environmental variability (EV) can promote the evolution of cooperation through simulation based on evolutionary game theory. This result offers a new ...

This is follow up to prior posts criticizing a subset of scholars who use evolutionary theory, those identified with Evolutionary Psychology (capital letters), an offspin from sociobiology whose ...