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

Human babies arrive with 100 extra bones for the same reason birth is the most dangerous event in mammalian life. Both facts ...

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

A fossil ape discovered in northern Egypt is reshaping the story of human evolution. The species, Masripithecus, lived about 17 to 18 million years ago and may sit very close to the ancestor of all ...

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

A Harvard-led study of nearly 16,000 ancient genomes from West Eurasia reveals that natural selection has been far more active in the past 10,000 years than previously believed. Researchers identified ...

Prehistoric humans in Africa may have avoided areas infested with malaria-spreading mosquitoes, a new study suggests.

A new study shows the virus could have doubled the frequency of genetic variants in a South African province if effective ...