Humans really do rule the world. We took over fast and far, more than any other wild vertebrates. We inhabit nearly every ...

The turn of the next millennium is still a long way off, but that hasn't stopped scientists from simulating what future human evolution might look like when the year 3000 hits. The result? A computer ...

Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary shift—driven not by genes, but by culture. "Human evolution seems to be changing ...

Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to unravel in 2025. Analysis of DNA extracted from the fossil electrified the ...

On Valentine’s Day in 2018, a team of scientists walked across a flat expanse in the badlands of northeastern Ethiopia, scanning the ground for fossils. An eagle-eyed field assistant, Omar Abdulla, ...