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

Learn how repeated burn injuries may have acted as a form of natural selection, influencing human genes linked to healing and immune response.

Building the human story based on a few artefacts is tricky – particularly for wooden tools that don’t preserve well, or cave ...

Humans have lived with fire for over a million years. Scientists now say burn injuries may have influenced human evolution and healing.

Human evolution has long been tied to growing brain size, and new research suggests prenatal hormones may have played a surprising role. By studying the relative lengths of index and ring fingers — a ...

A discovery that contradicts long-held assumptions about how tools were made at the time.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A reconstruction of the crushed skull labelled Yunxian 2, which has features that are closer to species thought to have existed ...

At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, according to research.

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

Living on Mars, humans would experience just 38% the gravity of Earth and would be exposed to much more radiation. These two ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...