Learn how repeated burn injuries may have acted as a form of natural selection, influencing human genes linked to healing and ...

As The Jungle Book’s King Louie knows all too well, the ability to control fire is what sets humans apart from apes, fueling ...

A 3.4M-year-old set of foot bones from Ethiopia is forcing paleoanthropologists to redraw one of the most familiar diagrams ...

Humans' exposure to high temperature burn injuries may have played an important role in our evolutionary development, shaping ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A reconstruction of the crushed skull labelled Yunxian 2, which has features that are closer to species thought to have existed ...

The evolution of the human species is marked by an increase in brain size. Now new research suggests that could be partly ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to unravel in 2025. Analysis of DNA extracted from the fossil electrified the ...

Every step you take depends on a structure most people rarely think about. The pelvis sits at the center of the body and ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

A large comparative study of primate teeth shows that grooves once linked to ancient human tooth-picking can form naturally, while some common modern dental problems appear uniquely human.

Artificial intelligence allows tracing the evolution of genetic control elements in the developing mammalian cerebellum. An ...