Human aging is not what natural selection failed to prevent. It is what happens when selection simply has nothing left to act ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral ...

Scientists analyze 22,000 genomes documenting hundreds of genetic changes due to natural selection over the past 10,000 years ...

Why do 90% of humans reach with the same hand? The answer stretches back millions of years and involves fossils, language and ...

There was a moment in human history when our entire existence may have desperately clung to a thousand or more people.

Outbreaks of violence between chimpanzees have sparked fierce debate online about the origins of war in humans ...

Among the myriad of actions performed exclusively by humans, crying appears to be the most enigmatic. While no other animals ...

Humans for ages believed that wall lizards coexisted in three distinct color types, each with its own strategy for survival.

A skull fragment discovered over fifty years ago on the banks of the Elbe River in Germany has finally yielded its secrets. Long considered by some researchers to be a rare Neanderthal-modern human ...

For centuries, people tried to build ornithopters that flapped like birds, but none became a practical path to human flight.

A growing number of discoveries are reshaping long-held ideas about human evolution, from unexpectedly early stone tools to ...

Most humans favour their right hand, a trait deeply rooted in our evolutionary past. This dominance, linked to language ...