It’s a common mistake to think we came directly from the monkeys or chimps you see at the zoo today, […] ...

Genealogy study claims first conclusive case of sex ‘distortion’ in humans — but not all researchers are convinced.

Discover how pill bugs breathe with gill-like lungs, why they love damp places, and what happens when they dry out.

Can Ben Lamm save the planet? He thinks so. Short, stocky and unassuming with a puckish sense of humor, the shaggy-haired ...

Aristotle, a pivotal figure in Western philosophy, moved from Plato's abstract Forms to empirical observation, influencing science, ethics, and politics. He established the Lyceum, developed logic and ...

Researchers said this provides "an evolutionarily grounded explanation for the development of external breasts in humans." ...

By now, it’s firmly established that modern humans and their Neanderthal relatives met and mated as our ancestors expanded ...

Ancient linkups may have happened more frequently between female humans and male Neanderthals, according to an new genetic ...

The bony facial protrusion might be an evolutionary byproduct that resulted from changes to other parts of the skull, according to a new study ...

Geneticists have a better understanding of how prehistoric pairings unfolded, with new research suggesting they were mostly ...

The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia.

Another suggestion is that tails disappeared from the earliest apes due to a genetic mistake. When a single short stretch of DNA found in humans and other apes, but not in other primates, was added to ...