There is a great deal of embryology and comparative anatomy in the book, but there is very little ætiology, and the English title “The Evolution of Man” is rather misleading. The original ...

Chinese scientists have discovered dozens of human fossils dating back 300,000 years, which are the earliest ones found in ...

Humans and relatives evolved larger brains through gradual changes within species, not sudden leaps. This study challenges ...

Engels applied the logic of materialist dialectics to the problem of human evolution with important, though rarely ...

Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection made us rethink our place in the world. The idea that humans shared a common ancestor with apes was a challenge to the foundations of ...

A new study reveals that early humans' ability to use tools precisely may have been pivotal in human evolution. By recording ...

may have triggered the evolution of a large brain like that of modern humans, rather than the reverse. Could social bonds be the key to human big brains? A study of the fossil teeth of early Homo ...