At the most basic level, human evolution is articulated through classifications ... result in the shuffling of taxa and of taxonomic names. An excellent example of this shuffling is the change ...

Over 100,000 years ago, a mysterious group of ancient humans walked the lands of eastern Asia. Known as the Juluren—meaning ...

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

How did humans evolve into the big-brained, bipedal ape that we are today? This article examines the fossil evidence of our 6 million year evolution. Darwin's great insight, and the unifying ...

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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 ...

Neil deGrasse Tyson explains what the future of human evolution will look like. Follow TI: On Facebook StarTalk Radio is a podcast and radio program hosted by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson ...

The Human Evolution gallery will be closed between 19 and 23 May while we make some improvements to the cases. We apologise for any inconvenience this might cause. Meet your ancient relatives, trace ...

The story of human evolution just took a dramatic turn. According to a groundbreaking study published in Nature, modern humans may have inherited 20% of their DNA—and a boost in brainpower ...

Darwin's foes protest ape-man connection. While On the Origin of Species does not address human evolution, critics assume (correctly) that Darwin thinks humans are no exception. At a meeting of ...

For the past 150 years, scientists and laypeople alike have accepted a “savanna” scenario of human evolution. The theory, primarily based on fossil evidence, suggests that because our ancestral ape ...