Many of the body's biggest flaws are the result of evolution building on old designs instead of starting over. Our spine, ...

A vast stretch of islands across the South Pacific holds one of the oldest human stories on Earth. For tens of thousands of ...

✅ Know Your Terms: Hominin refers to all humans, plus our ancestral species who walked upright on two feet (including members ...

(Volodymyr Yakimchuk/Creatas Video+/Getty Images Plus) A seismic shift in the selection pressures acting on humans may have brought us to a major turning point in our evolutionary journey. According ...

Discover the shocking history of human-canine evolution. From self-domestication and prehistoric pack hunting to tracking down Neanderthals, explore how dogs shaped early human civilization and became ...

Why humans have a philtrum, the groove above your lip, explained by an evolutionary biologist — from embryonic face-building ...

But new evidence has started to challenge the notion that human childbirth is uniquely dangerous. A new paper published today ...

Humans sleep less than every other primate on record, despite having the biggest brains — biologists call it the human sleep ...

Attraction is a complex blend of social cues and biological signals, many of which are rooted in our evolutionary history.

Scientists studied the remains of a mysterious human relative called Homo naledi found deep in a South African cave and determined they were all female.

New research along Turkey’s Ayvalık coast reveals a once-submerged land bridge that may have helped early humans cross from Anatolia into Europe. Archaeologists uncovered 138 Paleolithic tools across ...

Instead of hunting big game or wielding fire, the hobbit-like hominin Homo floresiensis likely scavenged leftovers of prey ...