We begin this discussion of our species' evolution in Africa, near the end of the geological time period known ... apes than to living humans. The HC-LCA would have had an ape-sized brain and ...

Over the past decade anthropologists have struggled to answer key questions ... We have gotten so good at processing foods that for the first time in human evolution, many humans are getting ...

Richard Prum, the author of "The Evolution of Beauty," explains how who a female chooses to mate with can change the common traits that men show. Over ... problem. Human females have evolved ...

Remarkable social behaviors have been discovered in Kinda baboons (Papio kindae) that set them apart from other baboon ...

Sheep shaped human history for 12,000 years. Scientists traced their migration, domestication, and genetic evolution.

“Technology too has evolved in monitoring events in a live environment, for example the introduction of Hailios which ...

Yet, somehow humans evolved to be relatively hairless ... human ancestors had to spend more time outdoors to find food and water. For walking and running long distances, early members of the genus ...

Over time, gorillas have evolved increasingly longer canines, but when it comes to humans, our teeth took a different evolutionary path. Our canines have actually become shorter over time.

To understand evolution ... over 4.6 billion years. The stretch of geologic history is commonly referred to as "deep time," and it's a concept perhaps as difficult to conceive as deep space. Can ...