Early human ancestors underwent significant physical transformations over millions of years. New research challenges the idea ...
A new analysis suggests the evolution of human body size was marked by a major turning point rather than gradual growth.
How did humans become human? Understanding when, where and in what environmental conditions our early ancestors lived is central to solving the puzzle of human evolution. Unfortunately, pinning down a ...
The uvula is nearly unique to humans among mammals. An evolutionary biologist unpacks competing theories for why we evolved ...
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 ...
For nearly 30 years, a landmark study shaped how scientists understood the relationship between brain and body size in ...
See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The story of how us humans—and other mammals—got our noses may have ...
Two of the traits that set modern humans apart from non-human primates are taller stature and a higher basal metabolic rate. Researchers have identified a genetic variant that contributed to the ...