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

Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

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The study questions the long-held belief that northern Africa became arid around 3 million years ago, which coincides with ...

"Evolution is part deterministic—there are rules for how systems evolve—and part random—mutations and environmental changes are primarily unpredictable," Thomas Mailund, an associate ...

Recent discoveries using lab-grown brain organoids, or "mini-brains," suggest that testosterone increases brain size while ...

Maybe, with a little luck, he would make another discovery that would change the map of human evolution. A version of this story appears in the February 2025 issue of National Geographic magazine.

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We looked at fossil teeth from hominins (humans and our closest extinct relatives) from the Omo Valley in Ethiopia, where we can see traces of more than two million years of human evolution, as well ...

Since the Scopes trial in 1925, Science News has reported on legislative attempts to undermine the teaching of evolution.