Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

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

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 ...

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

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 ...