"Within the past 50,000 years most of the variation that is seen among human populations evolved," said researcher Jason Hodgson.

Briana Pobiners research centers on the evolution of human diets (especially meat-eating) in Africa and Asia, but has included topics as diverse as cannibalism in the Cook Islands and chimpanzee ...

experts gave Newsweek their predictions for how evolution might affect the appearance of our species in the future. A 3D illustration of a facial recognition system. What will humans look like in ...

“DNA was left in the dust by cultural evolution,” he says, “but now it’s catching up.” Distant future: Can humans adapt to the red planet? Large-scale evolutionary divergence from the ...

Imagine a future where humans are gone, and nature takes its course. Professor Tim Coulson explores the possibilities, including the rise of octopuses as a dominant species, in a fascinating glimpse ...

What if the AI future doesn’t stretch to these sci-fi dystopias? For an evolutionary biologist, seeing AI technologies diversify into all manner of applications looks a lot like the proliferation of ...

Much remains to be explored, but this study provides a solid foundation for future investigations to ... expansions continued until recently in human evolution. This point is stressed by the ...

Neil deGrasse Tyson explains what the future of human evolution will look like. Produced by Darren Weaver and Kamelia Angelova. Additional production by Rob Ludacer and Kevin Reilly. Follow TI ...

Two fossils named Ardi and Lucy provide evidence for human evolution. Both were found in Africa. Ardi is a female human-like fossilised skeleton that dates from 4.4 million years ago. Ardi's bones ...

New research adds to our understanding of the function of the human genome. An international team of researchers has made ...