The familiar claim about humans evolving from apes leaves out an important part of the story. Fossils and DNA reveal a much ...

A recent study reveals we have a long-lost relative which hung out with our more famous apelike ancestors about three million years ago. It turns out the human family tree is more complicated than we ...

Israeli and Japanese researchers report in Nature that reduced cartilage cushioning molecules, an evolutionary trade-off tied ...

Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary shift—driven not by genes, but by culture. "Human evolution seems to be changing ...