Could humans evolve into an entirely new species? Scientists explore how Mars colonization, genetic engineering, and ...

Humans didn’t evolve from any ape species alive today, evolution isn’t a ladder leading toward increasingly “advanced” organisms, and calling it “just a theory” misunderstands what that word means in ...

"Humans evolved from apes." Many people were taught this in school. However, when you start thinking about it a little more deeply, various questions arise.Why did only humans build a civilization?

Theories that aquatic foraging drove human evolution have a fraught past. But the pair argue it granted stamina that other ...

Digging in the dirt of East Africa for ancient monkey remains, University assistant professor Stephen R. Frost discovered that famed South African paleontologist Elisabeth Vrba’s controversial ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Human aging is not what natural selection failed to prevent. It is what happens when ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This ...

Humans' exposure to high temperature burn injuries may have played an important role in our evolutionary development, shaping how our bodies heal, fight infection, and sometimes fail under extreme ...