Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

It didn’t take more than a few days for Peter Cook, a marine mammal sciences professor at the New College of Florida, to ...

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And there are thousands of fossils documenting progressively more human-like species in the evolution of our lineage after it split from the other great apes and later from chimps and bonobos.

The turn of the next millennium is still a long way off, but that hasn’t stopped scientists from simulating what future human evolution might look like when the year 3000 hits. The result?

In natural selection, it's the natural environment, rather than a human being, that does the selecting. Put simply, the theory of evolution by means of natural selection can be described as ...

Since Darwin revealed his seminal theory of evolution by natural selection, human beings have endeavored to understand their own evolutionary origins and history. A lot of questions still remain, but ...

Which led me to ask: how might human evolution be altered by interactions with a world of rich AI diversity? In a paper just published in The Quarterly Review of Biology, I considered the many ways AI ...

This an exciting time to be examining human evolution. Intriguing fossil and archaeological discoveries, combined with innovative techniques and DNA research, are transforming scientists’ ...