Hank brings you the facts, as they are understood by scientists today, about the evolution of humans from our humble primate ...

Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis occurred, where life emerged from non-life. Imagine a hot, watery mix of ...

For thousands of years, humans have selectively bred dogs to fulfill specific roles, ranging from guarding and hunting to herding and companionship. This deliberate shaping of traits has resulted in ...

Saini Samim receives funding from the Melbourne Research Schorship provided by the University of Melbourne. She has also received funding from the Australian Research Council and the Turkana Basin ...

Biology and culture in human evolution -- Heredity -- Environmentalist thesis and hereditarian antithesis -- Equal but dissimilar -- Heredity of health and disease -- Natural selection and survival of ...

Researchers have demonstrated that intensified environmental variability (EV) can promote the evolution of cooperation through simulation based on evolutionary game theory. This result offers a new ...

“What we see about 70,000 years ago is Homo sapiens becoming the ultimate generalist.” A new study published June 18 in the journal Nature has uncovered a “huge surprise” about humans in Africa 50,000 ...

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 ...

Historically, neuroscientists and evolutionary anthropologists assumed that modern humans' disproportionately large frontal lobes and the explosive growth of our prefrontal cortex millennia ago were ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study published June 18 in the journal Nature has uncovered a “huge surprise” about humans in Africa 50,000 years ago.