A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull rewrites our understanding of human evolution, scientists have claimed.

Researchers discovered that autism’s prevalence may be linked to human brain evolution. Specific neurons in the outer brain evolved rapidly, and autism-linked genes changed under natural selection.

Scientists digitally reconstructed a 1 million-year-old skull unearthed in China. The analysis suggests it may have belonged ...

The findings have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers said.

New research suggests that the evolution of the human brain may explain why autism is more common in humans than in other ...

A recent study dramatically pushes back the date for the emergence of our species, though some researchers call for further ...

Are humans evolving more through culture than DNA? A new study explores how medicine, technology, and institutions may guide ...

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, according to ...

Researchers used sophisticated scanning and digital reconstruction techniques to determine the original shape of the skull, ...

For the first time, a research team from the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment at the University of ...

The skull's discovery indicates that our species may have emerged half a million years earlier than previously thought.