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 ...

While humans share over 95% of their genome with chimpanzees, our brains are far more complex due to differences in gene expression.

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?" ...

Palaeoloxodon turkmenicus greatly exceeded the size of modern African elephants. Adults grew to around four meters tall at ...

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