Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis ...

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

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

The evolution of human hands is one of the most important – and overlooked – stories of our origin. Now, new fossil evidence ...

Rob Brooks receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Some of the leading brains behind generative AI have warned about the risk of artificial superintelligence wiping out humanity, if ...

Studying human evolution involves piecing together scattered clues about how we survived against tough odds. One of the biggest mysteries is understanding how large or small ancient human populations ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Study reveals rapid evolution of common brain neurons may explain autism’s high prevalence in humans (CREDIT: Shutterstock) What ...

Scientists find genetic mutation, millions of years ago. Oct. 12, 2011 — -- About three million years ago human predecessors embarked on a new course that would forever alter the evolution of our ...