High on the Tibetan Plateau, where the air feels thin in a way that is hard to describe unless you’ve stood there, human life ...

It is a basic understanding in anthropology that the course of human evolution differs fundamentally from that of other animals due to its heavy reliance on cultural rather than biological adaptation.

When most humans reach late adulthood, their ability to coordinate movements and maintain balance, broadly referred to as ...

Human societies are already experiencing wide-ranging consequences of a warming planet. Rising average temperatures, more frequent and intense heatwaves, shifting precipitation patterns and ...

Study reveals how specific mutations in the H5N1 virus enhance its ability to bind human receptors, underscoring the need for ongoing surveillance of emerging strains. Study: A single mutation in ...

Food in, energy out? It’s not as simple as that. How do cells meet our bodies’ ever changing energy needs? In most animal cells, adenosine triphosphate (ATP), a compound with high potential energy, ...

A study of people living on the Tibetan Plateau suggests that human evolution is still occurring today. Researchers examined ...

Denisovans, a mysterious human relative, left behind far more than a handful of fossils—they left genetic fingerprints in modern humans across the globe. Multiple interbreeding events with distinct ...

A new University of California San Diego study published in Cell challenges a long-standing assumption about how animal viruses become capable of sparking human epidemics and pandemics. Using a ...

Adaptation—good fit to reality—is as old as life but very different for humans given our power of language. Here we imagine a beginner's guide for us newfangled language users.