When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the ...

Scientists have digitally reconstructed a 1 million-year-old skull unearthed in China. The analysis potentially shakes up ...

He lived hundreds of thousands of years ago, eking out an existence in what is today central China. Sporting a squat neck and ...

The skull, called Yunxian 2, appears to be that of a man possibly 30 to 40 years old, according to paleoanthropologist Xijun ...

A fossilised human skull unearthed in China and dated to around one million years ago may radically change what we know about ...

Digital reconstruction of a partially crushed skull suggests new insight into Homo sapiens’ evolutionary relationship to Denisovans and Neandertals.

In his new BBC show, Jim Al-Khalili journeys through hundreds of millions of years of brain evolution. Live Science spoke to ...

Learn why some researchers say that our culture – not genetics – is driving our evolution and what that could mean for our future.

Scientists have claimed in a new paper that humans are going through a significant evolutionary period right now. You might ...

A new study suggests culture is reshaping human evolution faster than DNA, redefining how our species adapts, survives, and ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may be the result of millions of years of evolution. Rapid neuronal evolution in humans is ...

Researchers discovered that certain human brain cells evolved unusually fast, altering autism-linked gene activity.