(Volodymyr Yakimchuk/Creatas Video+/Getty Images Plus) A seismic shift in the selection pressures acting on humans may have ...

A stunning discovery buried deep inside a cave for 300,000 years has revealed a lost chapter in human history.

New fossil discoveries are reshaping scientists’ understanding of a pivotal chapter in human evolution, revealing that ...

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 ...

The time has come to reconsider an outdated understanding of human evolution: it was ...

The 2-Million-Year Jump: The primary transition to modern human body proportions was a sudden evolutionary leap 2 to 2.5 million years ago, driven by Homo erectus/ergaster and Homo rudolfensis, rather ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The story of how us humans—and other mammals—got our noses may have ...

Human-AI interactions can resemble human-human social interactions, with computers, and especially AI-driven technologies, becoming increasingly important social actors. It is in these interactions ...

A new Yale-led study provides one of the most detailed and comprehensive analyses to date of genetic variation in human ...

Ancient encounters between humans and the mysterious Denisovans are still shaping people today. By analyzing genomes from populations across the Pacific, researchers uncovered evidence that the ...