New study challenges traditional views on human evolution with "bizarre" findings.

A clear walk through human evolution from our earliest hominin ancestors to modern Homo sapiens. This overview highlights key ...

Kissing is more than just "mouth-to-mouth" touching, and the study doesn't really shed much light on why humans kiss the way ...

If you’ve been following the rapid evolution of AI-assisted coding tools, you’ve probably noticed something: every company is ...

Although we humans have changed our environment in many ways during the past few thousand years, we are still changed by evolution. We have not stopped evolving, but we are evolving right now in ...

Aging brings about a range of changes—often unwelcome—to our bodies: sagging skin, graying or thinning hair, and a decline in muscle strength and ...

If your parents' bone repair genes never turn on, you still inherit them, and you heal. But if they don't teach you to ski, ...

Ford Foundation celebrates 65 years in West Africa, reaffirming its mission to advance equality, democracy, and human dignity through partnerships.

A recent study proposes a new paradigm for understanding the role of carrion in the subsistence of human populations throughout their evolution. Ana Mateos and Jesús Rodríguez, scientists at the ...

Revolutionary 300,000-year-old dental remains from China's Hualongdong site are rewriting our understanding of human evolution in Asia. The teeth display an unprecedented combination of primitive and ...

New research at a rockshelter on the edge of the Kalahari Desert in South Africa challenges the assumption that modern human origins and complex behaviors were limited to coastal environments. A ...