“Our work highlights how evolutionary adaptations to diet and disease may have influenced primate biology, including humans,” ...

The tallest man to ever live was Robert Wadlow, who reached a staggering 2.72m. That's equal to a very large male ostrich or ...

New research reveals that scavenging may have helped early humans adapt, expand, and endure tough seasons through smart use ...

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 ...

Imagine early humans meticulously crafting stone tools for nearly 300,000 years, all while contending with recurring ...

That’s the compelling argument made by Caleb Scharf—author and senior scientist for astrobiology at NASA Ames Research in ...

In this 4.4-million-year-old skeleton, scientists may have found the missing step between climbing and walking.

Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may be the result of millions of years of evolution. Rapid neuronal evolution in humans is likely ASD’s genetic cause, new research suggests. Though autism can cause ...

A timeline of genetic changes in millions of years of human evolution shows that variants linked to higher intelligence appeared most rapidly around 500,000 years ago, and were closely followed by ...

From epic poetry to game shows, from Stone Age axes to spaceflight, humans have the most complex cultures of any species on Earth. Since the time of Darwin, scientists have suspected that this culture ...