A hidden force let humans smash a barrier that had trapped our ancestors for millions of years.

A new theoretical paper suggests that human cognitive and linguistic evolution was driven by early humans’ ability to be ...

Recent advances in our understanding of human evolution challenge the way we currently name and classify our ancestors, ...

So much of our daily reality is weird, creepy, or mind-bending, but we rarely slow down enough to notice. Take our own bodies ...

Discover why some paleoanthropologists are calling for the reclassification of all human species and close relatives, like ...

The human family tree may be due for a major rewrite. Researchers argue that Australopithecus and Paranthropus should be ...

The traditional labels Homo, Australopithecus and Paranthropus may no longer match the tangled relationships revealed by the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 years ...

A new study could reshape human evolution by placing Australopithecus and Paranthropus within an expanded genus Homo.

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Human evolution might be more "bizarre" than we once thought, according ...

A self-proclaimed healthcare futurist, Jeffrey Charles Hardy, says that after millions of years, human evolution has stalled out. He believes we are in a state of suspended evolution before the second ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Fifty years ago, a remarkable fossil was unearthed in the Afar Rift ...