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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 ...

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

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 ...