Human evolution: no pause in sight A team at Harvard, led by Ali Akbari, has just turned a key assumption in science upside ...

Weak necks, soft spots, and underdeveloped brains make our babies much less independent than other great apes.

Greek paleoanthropologist Katerina Harvati wins the Albert Einstein World Award of Science for groundbreaking discoveries on ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Humans were living in rainforests roughly 150,000 years ago, some ...

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Archaeologists excavating a site in southwestern Kenya have uncovered stone tools dating back an estimated 3 million years.

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A self-proclaimed healthcare futurist, Jeffrey Charles Hardy, says that after millions of years, human evolution has stalled out. He believes we are in a state of suspended evolution before the second ...

Throughout most of human history, evolution progressed slowly. Small genetic changes took thousands of years to permeate populations. Natural selection was intentional, reactive, and gradual. However, ...

One hundred years ago, a small town in eastern Tennessee captured the attention of the entire country. A biology teacher in Dayton was accused of teaching human evolution to his students — which was ...