In a nutshell New research challenges the long-held belief that human evolution required improbable “lucky breaks,” ...

Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to ...

A new theory suggests windows of opportunity, not a series of improbable events may have helped humans gain a foothold in the ...

“Sometimes redundancy has a way of showing up under certain conditions; they’re not truly redundant,” said Michael Snyder, ...

Initially developed by theoretical physicist Brandon Carter in 1983, the “hard steps” model argues that our evolutionary ...

In this episode of Weekly podcast, we speak to three experts who study different ways that people are affecting how plants and animals evolve – and how humanity has become the single biggest driver of ...

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the ...

What makes the human brain unique? A Yale study unlocks new insights into genetic changes that shaped our evolution.

Researchers discovered how genetic switches shaped human brain evolution by fine-tuning shared gene expression.

Short snouts and a flat profile - within a span of 100 years, humans have significantly changed the shape of the skulls of ...

Scientists found that evolution led bird and mammal brains to evolve separately, using different genetic instructions.