Fossil evidence from Ethiopia has rewritten human history, showing Australopithecus lived one million years earlier than previously believed. These new findings bridge the gap between early ape-like ...

The Director of the Gibraltar National Museum, Professor Clive Finlayson, has been awarded the William King Medal by the ...

Joseph Henrich, a professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University, whose research and writings span anthropology, biology, and economics, has followed an unconventional academic and ...

Renaud Joannes-Boyau receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Manish Arora receives funding from US National Institutes of Health. He is the founder of Linus Biotechnology, a start-up ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – One of the University at Buffalo School of Law’s oldest traditions will feature one of its most familiar — and most thought-provoking — voices. This fall’s James McCormick Mitchell ...

Share on Pinterest Human brain cell evolution may be linked to autism, neurodiversity, according to a new study. Image credit: Lauren Lee/Stocksy A new study concludes that the speed at which the ...

HUBEI, China — A badly crushed cranium unearthed decades ago from a riverbank in central China that once defied classification is now shaking up the human family tree, according to a new analysis.

Researchers discovered that autism’s prevalence may be linked to human brain evolution. Specific neurons in the outer brain evolved rapidly, and autism-linked genes changed under natural selection.