Many people hold the view that evolution in modern humans has come to a halt. But while modern medicine and technologies have changed the environment in which evolution operates, many scientists ...

How did humans evolve into the big-brained, bipedal ape that we are today? This article examines the fossil evidence of our 6 million year evolution. Darwin's great insight, and the unifying ...

Large adult brain sizes are achieved by high rates ... Brain size at birth throughout human evolution: a new method for estimating neonatal brain size in hominins. Journal of Human Evolution ...

A new paper published in The Quarterly Review of Biology posits how these new technologies might affect human evolution. In "How Might Artificial Intelligence Influence Human Evolution?" ...

Here’s how it works. The community of microbes that live in the gut, known as the gut microbiome, may have fueled the evolution of humans' huge brains, a new study suggests. "Microbiome research ...

A recent study led by the University of Oxford and the Max Planck Institute for Animal Behavior has revealed that wild ...