A new study reveals that modern humans, Neanderthals, and other relatives evolved larger brains through gradual changes ...

While the rapid increase in brain size is widely recognized as a key factor in human evolution, many studies have focused on ...

Engels applied the logic of materialist dialectics to the problem of human evolution with important, though rarely ...

Millions of years ago, Lucy revolutionized our understanding of human evolution. Now, discover how her contemporaries add ...

Brain size increased gradually within each ancient human species rather than through sudden leaps between species.

Modern humans, Neanderthals, and other recent relatives on our human family tree evolved bigger brains much more rapidly than earlier species, a new study of human brain evolution has found.

Hidden deep inside our brain is a small structure that regulates our response to danger. Despite its size, it has a major ...

Modern humans, Neanderthals, and other recent relatives on our human family tree evolved bigger brains much more rapidly than ...

Lucy has and continues to play a fundamental role in our understanding of our ancient ancestors and how we evolved.

Recent research challenges the theory that long childhood in humans is due to large brain sizes. Instead, analysis of early ...

Lucy may be the best-known prehuman fossil in the world. But other famous fossils have given us important insight into our ...