Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

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

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

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

A new breakdown of earthworm DNA could help us better understand how evolution works, and it could prove Darwin completely ...

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

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 ...

The placenta and the hormones it produces may have played a crucial role in the evolution of the human brain, while also ...