Steven Pinker’s book recommendations cover science, psychology, and philosophy, providing thought-provoking insights that ...

Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ...

The discovery of a Lucy, a 3.2 million-year-old skeleton changed our theory of human evolution forever. The discovery is celebrating its 50-year anniversary, continues to capture human imagination ...

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe.

The find at first bolsters the argument for human evolution -- in the 1920s ... textbook writers and publishers who are poisoning the books used in our schools." William Jennings Bryan launches ...

Farming arose on multiple continents among populations with radically different cultures and environments and with no means of communicating with each other – how did it crop up independently at about ...

He’s best known for popularising the theory of evolution in his book, On the Origin of Species, but Charles Darwin also had some very unsubstantiated ideas about human beings... In a later book ...