This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

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Researchers find Apennine brown bears evolved into a smaller, less aggressive animal after centuries of coexistence with ...

In 1758, Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus gave humans a scientific name: Homo sapiens, which means "wise human" in Latin. Although Linnaeus grouped humans with other apes, it was English biologist ...

Humans were isolated in southern Africa for about 100,000 years, which caused them to "fall outside the range of genetic variation" seen in modern-day people, a new genetic study reveals. The finding ...