For thousands of years, humans have selectively bred dogs to fulfill specific roles, ranging from guarding and hunting to herding and companionship. This deliberate shaping of traits has resulted in ...

Many people today simply assume that our evolution has quietly ended with the development of the modern human. It's easy to think that medicine, science, and modern living have made us "perfect" or ...

A definition of man / Kenneth P. Oakley -- Tools and human evolution / Sherwood L. Washburn -- Ecology and the protohominids / George A. Bartholomew, Jr. and Joseph B. Birdsell -- The concept of ...

A fossil jaw of a distant human relative was discovered much farther north than previously thought possible, revealing new ...

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 ...

That humans originated in Africa is widely accepted. But it’s not generally recognised how unique features of Africa’s ecology were responsible for the crucial evolutionary transitions from ...

House fox -- Dogs -- Cats -- Other predators -- Evolutionary interlude -- Pigs -- Cattle -- Sheep and goats -- Reindeer -- Camels -- Horses -- Rodents -- Humans: part ...

I have noted that many of my fellow Christians have difficulty with the theory of evolution. This has been true since Charles Darwin published his "On the Origin of Species" in 1859. Most people have ...