The Wheatley Institute and the BYU College of Life Sciences hosted Dr. Samuel T. Wilkinson from Yale for a speaking event on Thursday, Oct. 17. Wilkinson is an accomplished professor of psychiatry at ...

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 ...

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors to modern humans, researchers now see a tangled, branching tree with ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 years earlier than thought and in Asia, not Africa, a study found. The ...

Human evolution is a story writ slow. It’s been about 3.8 billion years since life on Earth emerged and steadily began to ...

A reconstruction of the crushed skull labelled Yunxian 2, which has features that are closer to species thought to have existed later in human evolution - BBC A digital reconstruction of a ...

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Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary shift—driven not by genes, but by culture. "Human evolution seems to be changing ...