This video traces the human evolutionary tree from great apes to modern Homo sapiens, explaining the difference between ...

Hundreds of hominin fossils reveal that human body size remained stable for ages before a sharp increase in early members of ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain ...

Human evolution is generally explained through changes in brain size, locomotion or tool use, but new research from Wits University suggests that gum disease and changes in facial structure may have ...

(Volodymyr Yakimchuk/Creatas Video+/Getty Images Plus) A seismic shift in the selection pressures acting on humans may have ...

What makes the human brain distinctive? A new study published in Cell identifies two genes linked to human brain features and provides a road map to discover many more. The research could lead to ...

For nearly 30 years, a landmark study shaped how scientists understood the relationship between brain and body size in ...