A million-year-old skull from China, Yunxian 2, reshapes our understanding of human origins and ancient human relatives.

A recent study dramatically pushes back the date for the emergence of our species, though some researchers call for further ...

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

Researchers used sophisticated scanning and digital reconstruction techniques to determine the original shape of the skull, ...

When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the ...

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, according to ...

Researchers digitally reconstructed a crushed skull and concluded our species is 1 million years old, igniting a debate over the start date of Homo sapiens.

Are humans evolving more through culture than DNA? A new study explores how medicine, technology, and institutions may guide ...

Stanford study finds rapid brain cell evolution boosted human cognition but lowered autism gene activity, raising vulnerability.

Researchers discovered that autism’s prevalence may be linked to human brain evolution. Specific neurons in the outer brain evolved rapidly, and autism-linked genes changed under natural selection.

Researchers discovered that certain human brain cells evolved unusually fast, altering autism-linked gene activity.

New research suggests that the evolution of the human brain may explain why autism is more common in humans than in other ...