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

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.

Every step you take depends on a structure most people rarely think about. The pelvis sits at the center of the body and ...

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 ...

Early humans were not just scavengers. New research shows they actively butchered elephants, transforming survival and social behavior.

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 ...

Artificial intelligence allows tracing the evolution of genetic control elements in the developing mammalian cerebellum. An ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain ...