In most cases, evolution is a pretty slow process, taking hundreds if not thousands of years—but when humans enter the ...

Human Evolution has come pretty far during our time on Earth. But, do you ever wonder, what humans could evolve to look like ...

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

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

Some think the rise of C-sections means that one day all births will require serious medical intervention. But a surprising new understanding of the pelvis suggests a different story ...

Shared meanings create institutions with real power. They also enable us to construct personal narratives that give our lives ...

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

Learn how increased protein diversity in signaling genes may have helped drive the shift from invertebrates to vertebrates, ...

The chin is one of our most familiar features, yet scientists still debate why we evolved it. Here’s a breakdown of what we ...

Tim Coulson, a professor at Oxford University, has dedicated years to researching how life evolves. He thinks that if we vanished, it would create space for ...

Humans and chimpanzees share the capacity for genocide, which is rooted in the evolution of higher thought and the separation ...