New discoveries in South Africa may redefine human history according to a new Netflix documentary, but critics are far from impressed by the evidence.

For some people, science is not enough but religion is too implausible to explain our origins, so instead of making their peace with one, they turn to a curious mix of both.

Do we owe our ability to walk on two legs to a sudden burst of supernovae activity lasting for nearly five million years, or are researchers connecting dots that don't need to be connected?

Researching human diversity helps us understand how we evolved. Unfortunately, it also gives racists opportunities to cherry pick justifications for their bigoted views...

Why do creationists insist on demanding evidence that's been produced so many times over?

Michio Kaku is an expert in theoretical physics. This is why it's not surprising that he's reciting for sci-fi cliches about evolution instead of the actual science.

Contrary to what you may have heard, humans are still very much evolving and natural selection plays a huge role in two recently discovered helpful mutations.

There is a hard limit to how many people this planet can support, but we may never actually reach it. If we do, we could be quickly cut down to size.

For all the time we've spent admiring, sexualizing, and thinking about breasts, we still haven't figured out how and why they evolved.

Humans are still evolving and a new study shows exactly what changed in our genomes over the last 10,000 years.

According to some researchers, "hey baby, that's a nice... uh... belly button you got there?" is the hot new pickup line we should be considering.

Since the Texas School Board is really into injecting controversies into education, here's one they should consider.

It seems bizarre, but the longer a patient using alternative medicine is sick, the more converts the alternative treatments win.

Africa is the cradle of humanity, which is why it's the most exciting place to study the early days of modern human evolution.

Evolutionarily speaking, ethics and morality before we even had a written language made humans the species we are today.