A million-year-old skull from China, Yunxian 2, reshapes our understanding of human origins and ancient human relatives.

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

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

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, ...

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 ...

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.

Researchers discovered that certain human brain cells evolved unusually fast, altering autism-linked gene activity.

In his new BBC show, Jim Al-Khalili journeys through hundreds of millions of years of brain evolution. Live Science spoke to ...

The significant push back in the date of origin of modern-day humans is notable. It indicates that, in the last 800,000 years ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts—from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain—have been assembled in fits and starts over the 4 billion years of our ...