Meet your ancient relatives, trace the origins and evolution of our species, and explore what makes us human. Embark on a seven-million-year journey, from the first hominins to the last surviving ...

Contrary to the popularised image of mankind ‘arising ... to be getting crowded out as the human jaw gets smaller with a soft diet. However sometimes evolution finds a good use for vestigial ...

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the process differed from the evolution of chimpanzees. For the study, published ...