A growing number of discoveries are reshaping long-held ideas about human evolution, from unexpectedly early stone tools to ...

The work demonstrates the power of ancient DNA to illuminate human biology and medicine in addition to history. A massive ...

Artificial intelligence has painted a startling picture of human evolution, suggesting that by the year 3025, our species could bear little resemblance to its current form. Prolonged digital immersion ...

Ancient DNA reveals how farming accelerated human evolution, driving genetic changes over the past 10,000 years.

Over the past 10,000 years, evolution in West Eurasia has been selecting for light skin, red hair and resistance to HIV and ...

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. In a paper published in the Oxford ...

While it’s certainly a possibility, it’s very, very unlikely we’ll witness a new species of human evolve in the near future.