He’s best known for popularising the theory of evolution in his book, On the Origin of Species, but Charles Darwin also had some very unsubstantiated ideas about human beings... In a later book ...

This video segment from NOVA: "Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial" reveals how genetic evidence helped to confirm an important component of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection ...

Charles Darwin's theory states that all organisms alive today evolved from more simple life forms. Two fossils named Ardi and Lucy provide evidence for human evolution. Both were found in Africa.

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

The discovery of a Lucy, a 3.2 million-year-old skeleton changed our theory of human evolution forever. The discovery is ...

Research indicates that the complex behaviors used in human language and tool making, such as organizing actions into sequences, may have evolved in our common ancestors with chimpanzees. This study ...

A new paper published in The Quarterly Review of Biology posits how these new technologies might affect human evolution. In “How Might Artificial Intelligence Influence Human Evolution?” ...