Researchers have recently uncovered a series of artifacts that suggest the existence of pre-human engineers, challenging our understanding of early human evolution. These findings, dispersed globally, ...

New research on the size relationship between brains and wisdom teeth suggests that bigger brains aren’t necessarily the ...

Human evolution has often been depicted as a process of adaptation, where natural selection and genetic changes drive species ...

Paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi travels the world digging into the origin of Homo sapiens in a five-part BBC series ...

A new study examines the evolutionary connection between the fine manipulation of objects and the associated development of ...

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 ...

Researchers are now exploring how different types of repetitive DNA create genome instability and structurally variant chromosomes.

Human activity has added an average of 40 days to the global wildfire season, fundamentally changing when fires occur around ...