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

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 of malaria in Africa in the last 70,000 years could hav ...

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

A massive study of ancient and modern DNA from thousands of West Eurasian people has identified nearly 500 genetic variants ...

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 ...

Many people today simply assume that our evolution has quietly ended with the development of the modern human. It's easy to think that medicine, science, and modern living have made us "perfect" or ...

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

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