A new study, published July 6, 2026, in the journal Nature Communications, suggests that two of the best-known trends in ...

A new landmark study has uncovered evidence that challenges the long-held beliefs about human evolution.

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

A vast stretch of islands across the South Pacific holds one of the oldest human stories on Earth. For tens of thousands of ...

For nearly 30 years, a landmark study shaped how scientists understood the relationship between brain and body size in ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The story of how us humans—and other mammals—got our noses may have ...

Hundreds of hominin fossils reveal that human body size remained stable for ages before a sharp increase in early members of ...

Until Homo floresiensis was discovered, scientists assumed that the evolution of the human lineage was defined by bigger and bigger brains. Via a process called encephalization, human brains evolved ...

The ancestors of modern humans and great apes began laughing at least 15 million years ago. This was reported by Popular ...

Researchers have demonstrated that intensified environmental variability (EV) can promote the evolution of cooperation through simulation based on evolutionary game theory. This result offers a new ...