Charles Darwin suggested in 1871 that spoken language originated with instinctive sounds, like squeals or yells, which humans ...

What makes the human brain different from that of other primates has long been a question. A new study suggests that the ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull rewrites our understanding of human evolution, scientists have claimed.

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

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

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

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.

From ancient apes to modern humans, this video breaks down the entire evolutionary timeline. Learn how hominids split from ...

A million-year-old skull from China, Yunxian 2, reshapes our understanding of human origins and ancient human relatives.

Decades after a skull was unearthed in China’s Hubei Province, researchers said they suspect a much earlier and more complex ...

In his new BBC show, Jim Al-Khalili journeys through hundreds of millions of years of brain evolution. Live Science spoke to ...

A new scientific review tackles an age-old question: could dogs ever learn to talk? While barking out full sentences might ...