A Long Childhood Is the Prelude to the Evolution of a Large Brain Nov. 13, 2024 — Could social bonds be the key to human big brains? A study of the fossil teeth of early Homo from Georgia dating ...

New research suggests a genetic variant in the NOVA1 protein may have played a key role in the emergence of human speech.

Sometimes last month feels like a long time ago, but considering our planet, the long perspective can really help.

Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to a new model for how intelligent life developed on Earth.

C4 photosynthesis serves as a prominent example of convergent evolution in complex traits. Here, the authors construct chromosome-scale genome assemblies for five Flaveria species and investigate ...

The more we discover about our species' family tree, the harder it becomes to pinpoint when exactly Homo sapiens emerged, ...

Jean-Jacques Hublin discovered Homo sapiens fossils that pushed back our species’ origins by 100,000 years. Now, in a new ...