The human brain grew from a survival machine into the most complex organ on Earth—fueling language, culture, and technology. This is how evolution reshaped our minds over millions of years.

Lucy's position in the history of human evolution is currently being challenged. The Lucy fossil species, or Australopithecus afarensis, was long believed to be an ancestor species that humans ...

Scientists used mtDNA to confirm what many researchers had long suspected: the Chinese “dragon man” Harbin skull belonged to ...

A collaboration between the University of Huddersfield's Archaeogenetics Research Group and the University of Southampton's ...