Human evolution, traditionally driven by natural selection, may have reached a point where technological and medical advancements are interfering with the age-old processes that shaped our species.

The human chin has been fertile ground for arguments between scientists over its purpose. As with testicles, there are half a dozen plausible ideas to explain the evolution of the human chin.

Jason Hodgson, an anthropologist and evolutionary geneticist at Anglia Ruskin University in the United Kingdom, told Newsweek that 50,000 years is an "extremely long time" in the course of human ...

Humans were living in rainforests roughly 150,000 years ago, some 80,000 years earlier than was previously thought—and may have been an important center for early human evolution.. This is the ...

Human evolution pictures. Image 1 of 4 (Image credit: JUSTIN TALLIS via Getty Images) Most human ancestors were dark-skinned. A 10,000-year-old skull found in Britain and known as "Cheddar Man ...

For decades, the dominant theory in human evolution suggested that modern humans descended from a single ancestral lineage in Africa. However, groundbreaking new research from the University of ...

The turn of the next millennium is still a long way off, but that hasn’t stopped scientists from simulating what future human evolution might look like when the year 3000 hits. The result? A ...

Humanity’s domination of nature put an end to a millions-year-long human evolution run, according to self-proclaimed healthcare futurist Jeffrey Charles Hardy. And now that the first stage of ...

Fifty years ago, our understanding of human origins began to change with the discovery of Lucy, a remarkably complete, 3.2-million-year-old human relative unearthed from the sandy soil in Hadar ...

Researchers have uncovered new insights into a long-lost human species known for their particularly hefty craniums, according to a recent study.. The Julurens — or “big head” people — are ...

But predicting evolution is, if anything, even more precarious. Combining the two involves considerable speculation, and the very strong possibility of being wrong. At the risk of being wrong, my ...