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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

The human body is a machine whose many parts—from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain—have been assembled in fits and starts over the 4 billion years of our ...

The latest discoveries in Central China's Henan province are filling critical gaps in understanding East Asia's role in human ...

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 ...

As The Jungle Book’s King Louie knows all too well, the ability to control fire is what sets humans apart from apes, fueling ...

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