Humans may have developed advanced social behaviours and trade 100,000 years earlier than previously thought.

New research, published in Biological Reviews and conducted by researchers from the University of Liverpool and Escola Superior de Ciências da Saúde (Brasília, Brazil) has found some type of cancers unique to humans may be a result of evolutionary accidents.

Humans may have developed advanced social behaviours and trade 100,000 years earlier than previously thought.

A mutation in a single crayfish/crawfish/crawdad (pick your poison) has lead to the propagation of a new species over the past two decades.

Researchers have identified the remains of the earliest known modern humans to have left Africa.

The regular use of Caesarean sections is having an impact on human evolution, say scientists.