The idea of a missing evolutionary link between humans and apes is both compelling and persistent, but the truth is more ...

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

For thousands of years, humans have selectively bred dogs to fulfill specific roles, ranging from guarding and hunting to ...

Human infants receive up to 400 times more direct vocal communication than baby bonobos and nearly 70 times more than baby ...

Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins. ... Human Evolution 'Huge surprise' reveals how some humans left Africa 50,000 ...

A new breakdown of earthworm DNA could help us better understand how evolution works, and it could prove Darwin completely ...

New research suggests that the unique way human placentas produce sex hormones during pregnancy may have been a key driver ...

The placenta and the hormones it produces may have played a crucial role in the evolution of the human brain, while also ...

What can a tiny wasp with a rather gruesome parasitic life cycle teach us about evolution, behavior and human developmental ...

We looked at fossil teeth from hominins (humans and our closest extinct relatives) from the Omo Valley in Ethiopia, where we can see traces of more than two million years of human evolution, as well ...

Recent discoveries using lab-grown brain organoids, or "mini-brains," suggest that testosterone increases brain size while ...