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 ...

Whales are mighty. Blue whales, for example, aren’t only the largest animal on Earth, but as far as we know, they’re the ...

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 ...

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

The chin is one of our most familiar features, yet scientists still debate why we evolved it. Here’s a breakdown of what we ...

Ancient tools from central China are flipping the script, revealing early humans were far more innovative than history once gave them credit for.

Annick Lever was just two-months-old when she was taken to a prison in Nazi-occupied France and now is urging the next ...

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 ...