A study of 225 newborns suggests prenatal estrogen may have played a role in the evolution of larger human brains. Boys with ...

Scientists say some of the traits that define modern humans may have evolved only after long-standing biological and cultural ...

For decades, one idea has shaped discussions about human evolution and birth: humans endure unusually difficult childbirth ...

Researchers have put forth a theory that humans are no longer subject to natural selection for evolution, but instead that ...

For years, the common belief among scientists was that human evolution had basically slowed to a crawl once we invented ...

A new study, published July 6, 2026, in the journal Nature Communications, suggests that two of the best-known trends in ...

Human-AI interactions can resemble human-human social interactions, with computers, and especially AI-driven technologies, becoming increasingly important social actors. It is in these interactions ...

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how human-specific DNA changes shaped human evolution. It's just over a decade since ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A reconstruction of the crushed skull labelled Yunxian 2, which has features that are closer to species thought to have existed ...

A self-proclaimed healthcare futurist, Jeffrey Charles Hardy, says that after millions of years, human evolution has stalled out. He believes we are in a state of suspended evolution before the second ...

Researchers who investigated the remains of a young adult male found in the Qafzeh cave say the injury healed over time, ...

Some 4,000 years ago, as ancient civilizations such as the Minoans in Crete and the Neo-Sumerian Empire in Mesopotamia were shaping cultures in Europe and the Middle East, human biology itself was ...