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 ...

A set of burned human bones unearthed in Ethiopia’s Afar Rift may hold the oldest known evidence of cremation, pushing a ...

No matter where you are in the world, the humans living there are about 90 percent right-handed while the remaining 10 ...

A groundbreaking archaeological discovery in West Africa is challenging long-held assumptions about early human adaptability and migration. Evidence from a site in Côte d'Ivoire reveals that Homo ...

I want AI to be a tool that allows human flourishing!” exclaimed Brad Carson, a former member of Congress. “There is an ...

Genes make us who we are—but are they shaped by chance, natural selection, or something else?

A team led by researchers from the University of Oxford suggests that humans became overwhelmingly right-handed because of two major evolutionary milestones: walking upright and d ...

This wide-ranging overview traces human evolution from the earliest primates around 85 million years ago through the emergence of apes, australopithecines, and the many human species that followed. It ...

For decades, scientists believed ancient humans avoided dense rainforests, treating them as nearly impossible environments ...

Residues on medical equipment reveal that physicians in China over 600 years ago used aconitine, a highly toxic plant ...

Over 80 percent of the world’s population is currently heating up for summer, and with it comes the realization that many of ...