Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary ...

Volcanic eruptions are excellent timekeepers because they happen very quickly, geologically speaking. As hot magma erupts, it cools and solidifies into volcanic ash particles and pumice rocks. Pumice ...

Populations live in rapidly changing environments—droughts come and go, food sources change, human activities reshape habitats. For scientists, this raises a fundamental puzzle: How do populations ...

Daily Mail has asked some of the leading evolution experts why, if humans evolved out of primates, do monkeys and apes still ...

Perhaps such a transition will be increasingly adaptive. Faced with growing ecological and social crises, the current configuration of human society—atomized, slow to coordinate, prone to ...

Newly discovered fossils in Ethiopia show that Homo coexisted with Australopithecus 2.6 million years ago, rewriting the timeline of human evolution. Far from a straight line, early human history was ...

A groundbreaking discovery on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi reveals that early hominins crossed treacherous seas over a ...

Some cosmic events could have profoundly altered the lives of our ancient human relatives. Did Neanderthals go extinct, at ...

The extraordinary evolution of humans is often exemplified by two defining traits: large brains and highly dexterous hands.

Jasmine Laws is a US News Reporter at Newsweek based in London, U.K. Her focus is reporting on health insurance, including Medicare and Medicaid, but she also writes about U.S. politics, crime and ...

One of the biggest mysteries in human evolution has just been solved. In 2010, a groundbreaking genetic analysis revealed that east Asia was once home to a previously unknown group of enigmatic ...