The whites of your eyes are not an accident. They are, scientists now believe, one of the most sophisticated social ...

Forget Survival Of The Fittest. Humans Conquered Our Planet By Sharing Ideas. In A Nutshell Humans spread across nearly every habitat on Earth in around 300,000 years, a feat that biology alone would ...

A new study shows cultural evolution helped humans expand across Earth far faster than genetic change alone could achieve.

Insights from a Zooarchaeologist. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] Recently released by Zhejiang Education Publishing House, Bones Through Time: Insights from a Zooarchaeologist is a new book ...

A 7.2-million-year-old femur found in Bulgaria reveals early signs of upright walking and reopens the debate on human origins ...

Human evolution is a story writ slow. It’s been about 3.8 billion years since life on Earth emerged and steadily began to spread its reach from the tidal pools to the oceans to ...

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 ...