The evolution of the human species is marked by an increase in brain size. Now new research suggests that could be partly ...

Learn how repeated burn injuries may have acted as a form of natural selection, influencing human genes linked to healing and ...

At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

Once overlooked, Morocco has emerged as a focal point of human prehistory, with new discoveries and a landmark report ...

Humans’ exposure to high temperature burn injuries may have played an important role in our evolutionary development, shaping how our bodies heal, fight infection, and sometimes fail under extreme ...

New research suggests fire was key to making our bodies successful in evolution – but not in the ways we previously thought.

Every step you take depends on a structure most people rarely think about. The pelvis sits at the center of the body and ...

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 ...

Living on Mars, humans would experience just 38% the gravity of Earth and would be exposed to much more radiation. These two ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution, published by Oxford University Press, finds that the relatively high rate of Autism-spectrum disorders in humans is likely due to how humans evolved in ...