This, in a nutshell, is the heart of the stoned ape theory, or the idea that our impressive cognitive capabilities, like ...

Mar. 12, 2025 — The discovery of a human facial fragment aged over one million years represents the oldest known face in western Europe and confirms the region was inhabited by two species of ...

Early bipeds, such as Ardipithecus kadabba which looked a bit like a gorilla, lived in Africa between 5.8 and 5.2 million ...

Hammerschmiede discoveries “highlight how much we don’t know about the evolution of the great ape and human family, and of other primates, during the Miocene in Europe,” Almécija says.

Research on human evolution is advancing at a furious speed ... My imagination was all fired up by the “15 humans”—ranging from an ape-man of 3.3 million years ago to Homo sapiens ...

[Blueringmedia/Getty Images] Scientists at Yale University say they have published research that provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain ...

The chart of an ape walking on all fours ... This is still a commonly used depiction of human evolution, with the famous Progress diagram having been published in a book called "Early Man ...

Ian Randall is Newsweek's Deputy Science Editor, based in Royston, U.K. His focus is reporting on science and health. He has covered archeology, geology, and physics extensively. Ian joined ...

Chris Stringer, a research leader in human evolution at London’s Natural History Museum, said the discovery was a “very important find.” “The facial shape is distinct from that of ...