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

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

Humans' exposure to high temperature burn injuries may have played an important role in our evolutionary development, shaping ...

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

Fossils dating back 773,000 years from Thomas Quarry I in Morocco shed new light on the shared ancestry of Homo sapiens, Neandertals, and Denisovans. An international team of researchers has ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A reconstruction of the crushed skull labelled Yunxian 2, which has features that are closer to species thought to have existed ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain ...

Analysis of ancient proteins may fill in the gaps of human evolution left by the decomposition of DNA. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

Hobbits of Flores evolved to be small by slowing down growth during childhood, new research on teeth and brain size suggests. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Artificial intelligence allows tracing the evolution of genetic control elements in the developing mammalian cerebellum. An ...