Recent research has unveiled an unexpected link between the ancient human exposure to lead and the evolutionary development ...

Evolutionary biologists have been investigating the evolutionarily origins of kissing by taking a broad look at behaviour in ...

Scientists are revisiting an influential theory that the evolution of big brains made human childbirth risky. By Carl Zimmer It’s a question on every new parent’s exhausted mind: Why are babies born ...

Amna Nawaz: We often talk about human origins as the evolution of man, but what if we saw it as the evolution of woman? A new book argues for a better understanding of our beginnings, with critical ...

John Gowlett receives funding from PAST Africa and Wenner-Gren Foundation, and his work has previously been supported by The Leverhulme Trust. He is associated with a new series of podcasts on human ...

ANTH copy 39088019968007 gift of Rusty Russell. "In this engaging exploration, archaeologist Ian Hodder departs from the two prevailing modes of thought about human evolution: the older idea of ...

A team of researchers discovered a new source of oxygen at the bottom of the ocean, and it's discovery has led to more questions being asked than answered. The discovery was detailed in a new paper ...

In 1758, Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus gave humans a scientific name: Homo sapiens, which means "wise human" in Latin. Although Linnaeus grouped humans with other apes, it was English biologist ...