Imagine how much better our parties would be! While our evolution into trans-human party machines may still be a million ...

In what is now Shandong, eastern China, researchers have discovered one of the oldest matrilineal societies known to science, ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...

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Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary ...

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors to modern humans, researchers now see a tangled, branching tree with ...

A new study suggests culture is reshaping human evolution faster than DNA, redefining how our species adapts, survives, and ...

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...

Denisovans were first discovered as another relation to modern humans in 2010—It turns out they might be our closest relative ...