Ever since Charles Darwin detailed the mechanism of evolution by means of natural selection in 1859, scientists have had a ...

Learn why some researchers say that our culture – not genetics – is driving our evolution and what that could mean for our future.

Human Evolution Homo erectus: Facts about the first human lineage to leave Africa Human Evolution 'It makes no sense to say there was only one origin of Homo sapiens': How the evolutionary record of ...

Shaw Badenhorst works for the University of the Witwatersrand. He receives funding from GENUS, the National Research Foundation and the Palaeontological Scientific Trust. South Africa has one of the ...

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the process differed from the evolution of chimpanzees. For the study, published ...

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors to modern humans, researchers now see a tangled, branching tree with ...