A reconstruction of a one-million-year-old skull suggested that our species started to emerge hundreds of thousands of years ...

The findings have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers said.

The story of how us humans—and other mammals—got our noses may have just gotten more complicated. This is the conclusion of a new study by researchers from Japan who have studied how the face develops ...

By bno - Taipei Office A human skull unearthed in central China and dated to around 1mn years ago could overturn prevailing ...

Researchers from France, China, the UK, and Greece revealed that the Petralona cranium is at least 286,000 years old, placing it firmly in the Middle Pleistocene era. A new scientific study has shed ...

Researchers say the analysis suggests Homo sapiens may have emerged at least half a million years earlier than previously ...

A new analysis of a million-year-old skull from China challenges the long-held assumption that Homo erectus was our ancestor.

Micronutrients, minerals that are part of the human diet in small amounts, may have influenced human evolution more than previously recognized. In a new study published Sept. 10 in the journal The ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...

Scientists have uncovered new evidence suggesting that autism may have it roots in how the human brain has evolved. "Our results suggest that some of the same genetic changes that make the human brain ...

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 ...

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 ...