Humans are the only primates that run nearly naked under the sun. Here’s how this biological tradeoff reshaped how our ...

Deep inside a cave system in Europe, a 60,000‑year‑old assemblage of human remains and artifacts has forced researchers to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Everything that is alive today has evolved, including human beings. Our ancestors evolved many traits that helped them survive in ...

Your brain might have a hidden neural layer that puts you in touch with the same “figures” during altered states of ...

Long before factories, mines, and cars filled the air with pollution, our distant ancestors were already living with a silent toxin: lead. A groundbreaking study reveals that hominids — from early ...

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We are indeed still evolving, though it can be hard to tell because it happens over generations and often involves things you can't see, such as what foods different people are able to digest. When ...

A new paper by evolutionary anthropologists Colin Shaw (University of Zurich) and Daniel Longman (Loughborough University) argues that modern life has outpaced human evolution. The study suggests that ...

Early humans were not just scavengers. New research shows they actively butchered elephants, transforming survival and social ...