Human newborns arrive remarkably underdeveloped. The reason lies in a deep evolutionary trade-off between big brains, bipedalism and the limits of motherhood.

Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis occurred, where life emerged from non-life. Imagine a hot, watery mix of ...

Like other living creatures, humans have been shaped by evolution. Over time, we have developed – and continue to develop – ...

The story of Charles Darwin’s life. His theory of evolution changed the way we understood our place in the world.

A new analysis argues that this daily work of processing and cooking food helped reshape human bodies and social life. It explores how fire, tools, and cooperation driven by women changed humans’ ...

Human evolution has long been tied to growing brain size, and new research suggests prenatal hormones may have played a surprising role. By studying the relative lengths of index and ring fingers — a ...

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 ...

Every step you take depends on a structure most people rarely think about. The pelvis sits at the center of the body and ...

The evolution of the human species is marked by an increase in brain size. Now new research suggests that could be partly ...

Learn how repeated burn injuries may have acted as a form of natural selection, influencing human genes linked to healing and immune response.

Humans have lived with fire for over a million years. Scientists now say burn injuries may have influenced human evolution and healing.

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...