The emerging field within neuroscience is helping us understand the links between design, art and brain activity—and how they ...

Tech is evolving too fast for human biology. Mental health trends show we're struggling. To survive, we must speed up ...

Ancient protein analysis revealed that the oldest hominin fossil found in Taiwan belonged to a male Denisovan. Penghu 1, a ...

Evolutionary biologist Rob Brooks talks to The Conversation Weekly about AI’s potential to influence our evolution.

Primates have evolved over 65 million years, from early ancestors to over 300 species today—including us. This is the incredible story of our ancient origins.

DNA sequences for the chimpanzee, orangutans and more will help scientists to determine what sets humans apart from other ...

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

A detailed explanation of the evolutionary timeline, starting from the very first primates all the way to us modern humans.

“Seeing Lucy’s face is like glimpsing a bridge to the distant past, offering a visual connection to human evolution,” Brazil’s Cicero Moraes, a pioneer in the field of forensic facial reconstructions, ...

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

The jawbone fragment was pulled up during a fishing expedition in the Penghu Channel, located near the Taiwan Strait.

A deep-rooted population structure emerged, suggesting modern humans, Homo sapiens, are the result of a population that split in two about 1.5 million years ago, and then, only 300,000 years ago, ...