Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis occurred, where life emerged from non-life. Imagine a hot, watery mix of ...

Many scientists point to cultural evolution, the process by which knowledge, customs and technology spread over time. But ...

Based on Coll Macià's upper-bound generation interval of about 30 years, there have been at least 10,000 generations of ...

Walking on two legs has long been considered a milestone in human evolution and one of our most defining characteristics. Until now, researchers assumed that the first humans originated in Africa and ...

Malaria may have shaped early human life across Africa far earlier than once thought, steering where people could safely live ...

The story of Charles Darwin’s life. His theory of evolution changed the way we understood our place in the world.

Why do we have big brains? Or walk on two legs? Biological anthropologist and broadcaster Alice Roberts talks human ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...

A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution, published by Oxford University Press, finds that the relatively high rate of Autism-spectrum disorders in humans is likely due to how humans evolved in ...