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

A glass of milk can still mark a line through humanity. For most adults, drinking it brings discomfort because the body ...

For thousands of years, humans have selectively bred dogs to fulfill specific roles, ranging from guarding and hunting to herding and companionship. This deliberate shaping of traits has resulted in ...

Some of the smallest organisms might have influenced our own evolutionary path. A new study has found that the distribution ...

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 ...

New research on primate social structures and brain anatomy is offering deeper insights into the evolutionary pathways of humans. Studies on baboons, macaques, and chimpanzees reveal complex social ...

Walking on two legs has long been considered a milestone in human evolution and one of our most defining characteristics. Until now, researchers assumed that the first humans originated in Africa and ...

Human babies arrive with 100 extra bones for the same reason birth is the most dangerous event in mammalian life. Both facts ...

Speech is a crowning achievement of human evolution, the skill that separates us from every other animal. So, it would stand ...

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 ...

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