New research suggests that the evolution of the human brain may explain why autism is more common in humans than in other ...

Globally, autism affects about 1 in 100 children, according to the World Health Organization. In the U.S., the rate is closer ...

A paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution finds that the relatively high rate of autism-spectrum disorders in humans is ...

Micronutrients, minerals that are part of the human diet in small amounts, may have influenced human evolution more than ...

Newly discovered fossils in Ethiopia show that Homo coexisted with Australopithecus 2.6 million years ago, rewriting the timeline of human evolution. Far from a straight line, early human history was ...

The extraordinary evolution of humans is often exemplified by two defining traits: large brains and highly dexterous hands.

Denisovans were first discovered as another relation to modern humans in 2010—It turns out they might be our closest relative ...

Some cosmic events could have profoundly altered the lives of our ancient human relatives. Did Neanderthals go extinct, at ...

Recent discoveries of fossilized footprints have provided intriguing evidence that suggests pre-human species were more ...

An ASU research team has discovered 13 ancient human teeth in Ethiopia, dating back to 2.6 to 2.8 million years ago, that ...

Researchers from France, China, the UK, and Greece revealed that the Petralona cranium is at least 286,000 years old, placing it firmly in the Middle Pleistocene era. A new scientific study has shed ...

Like other species, we are the products of millions of years of adaptation. Now we're taking matters into our own hands.