Anthropologist Agustín Fuentes joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about human evolution. Are humans still evolving? Was there a first human? What does the family tree leading to ...

Combining archaeological evidence with ancient DNA and data on past climates shows us how long and winding the story of human evolution is, stretching back millions of years to when the first primates ...

The human family tree is becoming harder to fit into the categories scientists have used for decades. Research from Monash ...

A recent study reveals we have a long-lost relative which hung out with our more famous apelike ancestors about three million years ago. It turns out the human family tree is more complicated than we ...

The record of humanity is incomplete, but researchers discovered a well-preserved skull which calls into question assumptions about how evolution truly works.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The white skulls are the original, warped fossils, while the grey ones are digitally corrected replicas. (CREDIT: Fudan University ...

A reanalysis of a one-million-year-old human skull found in China is challenging the established timeline of human evolution, and suggests a new branch of the human family tree, as well as a possible ...

When we look at the world around us, we see a wonderous variety of living things—with fins, fronds or feet, living in the deepest ocean or the driest deserts, eating seeds or salmon or sunlight. The ...

Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary shift—driven not by genes, but by culture. "Human evolution seems to be changing ...

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 ...