The evolution of the human species is marked by an increase in brain size. Now new research suggests that could be partly ...

Humans' exposure to high temperature burn injuries may have played an important role in our evolutionary development, shaping ...

Do you like drinking milk or chatting with your friends? Well, you can enjoy those because of the evolution happened over the ...

How did humans become human? Understanding when, where and in what environmental conditions our early ancestors lived is central to solving the puzzle of human evolution. Unfortunately, pinning down a ...

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 ...

Share on Pinterest Human brain cell evolution may be linked to autism, neurodiversity, according to a new study. Image credit: Lauren Lee/Stocksy A new study concludes that the speed at which the ...

A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution, published by Oxford University Press, finds that the relatively high rate of Autism-spectrum disorders in humans is likely due to how humans evolved in ...

Scientists once thought that planning required a primate brain. Experiments with birds are now proving that assumption wrong.