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

New research reveals how human brain evolution may explain autism’s high prevalence, highlighting genetic trade-offs in ...

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

An ancient skull unearthed in China’s Hubei Province may push back the emergence of the human species by 400,000 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 four billion years of our ...

A fossilized human skull discovered in China could force scientists to rethink the timeline of our origins. The million-year-old specimen, named Yunxian 2, may push the emergence of Homo sapiens back ...

Digital reconstruction of a partially crushed skull suggests new insight into Homo sapiens’ evolutionary relationship to Denisovans and Neandertals.

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

Chimpanzees, along with bonobos, are humans' closest living relatives. In fact, you may have heard that humans and chimps ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...