Human intelligence wasn’t a cosmic evolutionary fluke, some scientists say. The case against cosmic loneliness is growing.

Survival of the fittest. Nature red in tooth and claw. The common view of natural selection is based solely on the individual: A trait allows an organism to out-compete its rivals and is thus passed ...

Human newborns arrive remarkably underdeveloped. The reason lies in a deep evolutionary trade-off between big brains, bipedalism and the limits of motherhood.

Arizona State University Regents Anne Stone will present research on the evolutionary history of infectious disease at the ...

A new analysis argues that this daily work of processing and cooking food helped reshape human bodies and social life. It explores how fire, tools, and cooperation driven by women changed humans’ ...

Dashiell Hammett mentioned Sam Spade's jutting chin in the opening sentence of his novel, "The Maltese Falcon." Spade's chin ...

In prophetic words for today’s AI age, in 2014, he urged the Church and the political world to remember that human beings may ...

Sci-fi and horror make perfect partners, as some of the best movies ever tap into the strengths of both genres.

A million years of kitchen accidents may have forced the human immune system to evolve.

Living on Mars, humans would experience just 38% the gravity of Earth and would be exposed to much more radiation. These two ...

New research suggests fire was key to making our bodies successful in evolution – but not in the ways we previously thought.

Humans’ exposure to high temperature burn injuries may have played an important role in our evolutionary development, shaping ...