The brain's complexity stems from evolutionary layering—new functions built atop ancient foundations, resulting in a tangled ...

Researchers can learn vital lessons about human evolution from such unique adaptations, says Ben Trumble, an Arizona State ...

The Haenyeo, an all-female group of divers on South Korea’s Jeju Island, spend much of their lives underwater without ...

Also known as selective breeding, artificial selection is the human-guided cousin of evolution by natural selection. Instead ...

At the time, the company felt small, like a temporary stop. But as I grew, the firm grew, too. And more than three decades ...

A multiyear investigation pieced together ancient DNA from strains of the plague, bringing together researchers from across ...

Evolution of human traitsIcons depict cultural and biological ... And there are a half dozen distinct genetic adaptations that protect Africans against malaria (one has the significant drawback ...

Seasonality shapes much of life on Earth. Most species, including humans, have synchronized their own rhythms with those of ...

Scientists have documented the way a single gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, allowed it to survive hundreds of years ...

So is it time to add viruses to one's microbiome-feeding regimen of probiotics and prebiotics, synbiotics (which combine the ...

Maba 1] is well-known for the Neanderthal-like face, while its neurocranium shows affinities with many hominin taxa, which ...

Once upon a streaming night, Netflix set the table with a peculiar promise: five shades of horror, each drawn straight from ...