A glass of milk can still mark a line through humanity. For most adults, drinking it brings discomfort because the body ...

Salamanders regrow entire limbs. We share their evolutionary blueprint. So why can’t humans do the same? The answer ...

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 ...

Speech is a crowning achievement of human evolution, the skill that separates us from every other animal. So, it would stand ...

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

Scientists in China discovered that ancient humans were making surprisingly advanced stone tools during a harsh ice age ...

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

Why do we kiss? The answer involves ancient apes, immune systems and a neurochemical cocktail in the human brain that few can ...

Denisovans, a mysterious human relative, left behind far more than a handful of fossils—they left genetic fingerprints in modern humans across the globe. Multiple interbreeding events with distinct ...

It’s no secret that life in the 21st century moves at a rapid pace. Human inventions such as the Internet, mobile phones and fiber optic cable have increased the speed of communication, making it ...