Humans' exposure to high temperature burn injuries may have played an important role in our evolutionary development, shaping ...

New research suggests fire was key to making our bodies successful in evolution – but not in the ways we previously thought.

As The Jungle Book’s King Louie knows all too well, the ability to control fire is what sets humans apart from apes, fueling our cultural and biological evolution and rocketing us into the space age.

A 3.4M-year-old set of foot bones from Ethiopia is forcing paleoanthropologists to redraw one of the most familiar diagrams in science, the human family tree. For decades, Lucy, the famous ...

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain ...

A study of a handful of 300,000-year-old teeth revealed an ancient human group had a mix of archaic and modern tooth features. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...