A new study led by our Psychology Department has revealed that children play a much bigger role in shaping human culture than ...

There are museums, and then there’s the EAA Aviation Museum in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The difference between the two is roughly ...

A new analysis suggests the evolution of human body size was marked by a major turning point rather than gradual growth.

This video traces the long evolutionary path from the first primates about 85 million years ago to modern Homo sapiens.

Long before evolution equipped them with the right teeth, early humans began eating tough grasses and starchy underground plants—foods rich in energy but hard to chew. A new study reveals that this ...

Artistic representations of ancient humans often show large men with bulging muscles – but our ancestors were actually ...

It would be tempting to believe that human evolution has slowed since our ancestors left Africa 300,000 years ago. Yet a new study based on ancient DNA reveals a very different reality. By analyzing ...

Two studies of Neandertal remains suggest their newborns were about the same size as those of modern humans but developed ...

Until about 60,000 years ago, diminutive hominin cousins, Homo floresiensis (affectionately nicknamed Hobbits for obvious reasons), shared the island of Flores with Komodo dragons, pygmy elephants, ...

We don’t want to end up like you.” A 23-year-old said that to me after I had just finished speaking to about 1,000 interns ...

ZME Science. When scientists examined the incredibly well-preserved skeleton of a Neanderthal infant from an Israeli cave, ...