If you have spent time with an infant, you might recognize the scene: A child is wailing, inconsolable, and you, the parent, have to go to the bathroom. Or eat. Or attend to a pot that’s boiling over.

New Ethiopian fossils show early Homo and Australopithecus lived together, revealing a complex human evolution story.

The theory of complementary cognition proposes that our species cooperatively adapt and evolve culturally through a system of collective cognitive search alongside genetic search which enables ...

The evolution of human biology should be considered part and parcel with the evolution of humanity itself, proposes an assistant professor of biological sciences. She explores an interdisciplinary ...

Mysterious episodes of genetic duplication in our great ape ancestors may have paved the way for human evolution ...

The discovery of a Lucy, a 3.2 million-year-old skeleton changed our theory of human evolution forever. The discovery is celebrating its 50-year anniversary, continues to capture human imagination.

How did the evolutionary ancestors of Homo sapiens separate from the ancestors of modern apes? A key ingredient leading to modern human beings, according to researchers at the University of ...

Overview: In this lesson, students will be introduced to Darwin’s theory of evolution and how it applies to human development throughout earth’s history. In the Introductory Activity, students ...

Daniel Lieberman, who studies human evolution at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, points out that skull crests do not seem to limit the growth of other primates' brains.

THE theory of evolution is one of the greatest accomplishments of the human intellect. Some might argue that it is the greatest, although quantum theory or relativity would have their supporters ...

Science just totally rewrote the story of human evolution (again) The earliest humans could have lived in what is now northern Botswana, close to the remains of an enormous lake ...