(Volodymyr Yakimchuk/Creatas Video+/Getty Images Plus) A seismic shift in the selection pressures acting on humans may have ...

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

From epic poetry to game shows, from Stone Age axes to spaceflight, humans have the most complex cultures of any species on Earth. Since the time of Darwin, scientists have suspected that this culture ...

The human ability to cook may seem ordinary, but it marks one of the most important evolutionary turning points in our ...

The whites of your eyes are not an accident. They are, scientists now believe, one of the most sophisticated social ...

Why the Latest Science Leads Us to a New Theory of Human Nature, by Jonathan Leaf (Bombardier, 320 pp., $21) Ever since Darwin, biologists have believed that much could be learned about human nature ...

A fossil from Egypt hints we may have been looking in the wrong place for ape origins. A fossil ape discovered in northern Egypt is reshaping the story of human evolution. The species, Masripithecus, ...

A new analysis of genetic studies proposes that the cognitive capacity for language was already present at least 135,000 ...

A new study shows cultural evolution helped humans expand across Earth far faster than genetic change alone could achieve.