A new book argues that child care drove the evolution of human speech. If you have spent time with an infant, you might recognize the scene: A child is wailing, inconsolable, and you, the parent, have ...

In The Origin of Language, Madeleine Beekman, a professor emerita of evolutionary biology and behavioral ecology, considers ...

The pelvis is often called the keystone of upright locomotion. More than any other part of our lower body, it has been ...

Now a new study in Nature led by Harvard scientists reveals two key genetic shifts that remodeled the pelvis to help human ancestors become the upright bipeds ...

Denisovans were first discovered as another relation to modern humans in 2010—It turns out they might be our closest relative ...

Human evolution has long been visualized as a simple linear timeline, a kind of evolutionary baton race in which one species evolves into another, from apes to modern humans.

Scientists in Ethiopia unearthed pieces of 2.65 million-year-old fossilized teeth belonging to two members of a newly discovered Homo species that could challenge previously accepted ...

Andrews has been charged with: Two counts of human trafficking. One count for obstructing an officer. One count of possession of THC. One count of possession of drug paraphernalia.

A lost chapter in human evolution has been discovered among a collection of teeth which dates back 2.8 million years.

Papers presented at the International Theriological Congress in Edmonton, Alberta, Aug. 1985 and at a subsequent meeting and later invited papers Contents Evolution of life histories : theory and ...

The new finds reinforced that human evolution was more of a tangled-up bush. Different species and different branches of the hominin family tree overlapped with one another in time and space.