New research challenges long-standing assumptions about human evolution, revealing that natural selection has been more ...

A recent study proposes a new paradigm for understanding the role of carrion in the subsistence of human populations throughout their evolution. Ana Mateos and Jesús Rodríguez, scientists at the ...

Why do 90% of humans reach with the same hand? The answer stretches back millions of years and involves fossils, language 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 ...

Ever wonder why certain fears feel almost hardwired into us? Like there's something deeper pulling the strings when we spot a spider or stand too close to an edge? Turns out, that's not just your ...