Human babies arrive with 100 extra bones for the same reason birth is the most dangerous event in mammalian life. Both facts ...

A remarkable fossil discovery in South Africa has shed light on human evolution. Young Matthew Berger found a bone that led ...

Faster than expected: Researchers found natural selection has been more active in recent human history, especially after farming began. Hundreds of gene shifts: The study identified 479 gene variants ...

Some of the smallest organisms might have influenced our own evolutionary path. A new study has found that the distribution ...

You may not know that our ancestors hibernated during the winter months. Why did we evolve out of this biologically prolific ...

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 ...

Scientists in China discovered that ancient humans were making surprisingly advanced stone tools during a harsh ice age ...

Miners in Zambia unearthed the Broken Hill skull in 1921, a fossil initially baffling scientists with its mix of modern and ...

Speech is a crowning achievement of human evolution, the skill that separates us from every other animal. So, it would stand ...