Learn how repeated burn injuries may have acted as a form of natural selection, influencing human genes linked to healing and ...

Migration into the Americas is not about a single “path,” but timing can still rule routes in or out. The Holzman evidence supports the idea of a southward movement of ancestral Clovis-era populations ...

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.

For a long time, most scientists believed that early human hunter-gatherer societies were mostly equal, with little hierarchy or leadership, and that strong inequalities only emerged later with ...

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.

For more than a century, Neanderthals have been cast as a vanished side branch of the human family tree, a brief encounter in our deep past. The latest high resolution Neanderthal genome, combined ...

Some think the rise of C-sections means that one day all births will require serious medical intervention. But a surprising new understanding of the pelvis suggests a different story ...

Although Adam Smith is well-known for emphasizing division of labor, his analysis was woefully incomplete, as Dr. Mark Thornton points out.

The Brooklyn-based ensemble with roots in social activism debuts a performance titled “THIS IS RISK” on Feb. 13 at the ...

During a panel discussion at WIEF, industry leaders explored the transition from AI assistance to autonomous agents, the ...