Human babies arrive with 100 extra bones for the same reason birth is the most dangerous event in mammalian life. Both facts ...

But for earlier humans, meat consumption appeared to be a critical, yet somewhat poorly understood, contributor to ...

A massive study of ancient and modern DNA from thousands of West Eurasian people has identified nearly 500 genetic variants ...

The evolutionary case for eating meat is etched into human anatomy — but so is the case against it. The science deserves more ...

Some of the smallest organisms might have influenced our own evolutionary path. A new study has found that the distribution ...

Many people today simply assume that our evolution has quietly ended with the development of the modern human. It's easy to think that medicine, science, and modern living have made us "perfect" or ...

Long before humans spread across the globe, a deadly disease may have quietly shaped where our ancestors lived—and even how we evolved. New research reveals that malaria didn’t just threaten early ...

Prehistoric humans in Africa may have avoided areas infested with malaria-spreading mosquitoes, a new study suggests.

New research shows human language evolved through ancient genetic systems that regulate genes, challenging the previous idea.

Traumatic experiences can cause memory problems, and estrogen may be a key factor that shapes the brain's resilience against ...

A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution, published by Oxford University Press, finds that the relatively high rate of Autism-spectrum disorders in humans is likely due to how humans evolved in ...