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 ...

People often consider evolution to be a process that occurs in nature in the background of human society. But evolution is ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Our human evolution workshops were conducted with well-resourced and historically disadvantaged schools attending. The grade 12 learners, aged 17 and 18 years, ...