South Africa has one of the world's richest fossil records of hominins (humans and their fossil ancestors). But many ...

Human testicles are much smaller, in proportion, to some of our primate cousins. Evolution can tell us why. But the size of ...

For thousands of years, humans have selectively bred dogs to fulfill specific roles, ranging from guarding and hunting to ...

A new DNA model suggests humans didn't reach Australia until 50,000 years ago, but archaeological data disagrees.

"Evolution is part deterministic—there are rules for how systems evolve—and part random—mutations and environmental changes are primarily unpredictable," Thomas Mailund, an associate ...

Recent discoveries using lab-grown brain organoids, or "mini-brains," suggest that testosterone increases brain size while ...

The turn of the next millennium is still a long way off, but that hasn’t stopped scientists from simulating what future human evolution might look like when the year 3000 hits. The result? A ...

The study questions the long-held belief that northern Africa became arid around 3 million years ago, which coincides with ...

Humans change the urban landscape with religious, cultural and political activities, which in turn can influence the ...

We looked at fossil teeth from hominins (humans and our closest extinct relatives) from the Omo Valley in Ethiopia, where we can see traces of more than two million years of human evolution, as well ...

Since the Scopes trial in 1925, Science News has reported on legislative attempts to undermine the teaching of evolution.

A study led by researchers from Brown University finds that rainfall patterns across northern Africa remained largely stable ...