The fossil skull found in China is shaking the foundations of human evolutionary theory. Scientists have virtually “repaired” ...

A million-year-old skull, Yunxian 2, discovered in China, challenges the Africa-centric model of human evolution.

Scientists digitally reconstructed a 1 million-year-old skull unearthed in China. The analysis suggests it may have belonged to an ancestor of the Denisovans and “Dragon Man.” ...

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

In his new BBC show, Jim Al-Khalili journeys through hundreds of millions of years of brain evolution. Live Science spoke to ...

A new study suggests culture is reshaping human evolution faster than DNA, redefining how our species adapts, survives, and ...

Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary ...

Now some scientists claim in a new paper that culture has actually overtaken genetics as the leading force shaping human evolution, marking a major shift. Timothy Waring, an economist at the ...

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 ...

John Gowlett receives funding from PAST Africa and Wenner-Gren Foundation, and his work has previously been supported by The Leverhulme Trust. He is associated with a new series of podcasts on human ...

Until Homo floresiensis was discovered, scientists assumed that the evolution of the human lineage was defined by bigger and ...