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 ...

The bold question-askers at What If examine how merging with machines could mark the next phase in human evolution.

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

Take heart in this impression. A century ago, when adolescent psychology first emerged as a field of study, that was exactly ...

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

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

Human height, for instance, is estimated to be influenced by more than 100,000 positions. Each individual gene involved in a polygenic trait may exert only a small influence on that trait.

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.