Human aging is not what natural selection failed to prevent. It is what happens when selection simply has nothing left to act ...

There was a moment in human history when our entire existence may have desperately clung to a thousand or more people.

A massive study of ancient and modern DNA from thousands of West Eurasian people has identified nearly 500 genetic variants ...

As resistance increased, humans began moving into high-risk areas. Around 14,000 to 13,000 years ago, people started living ...

A landmark genetic study analyzing nearly 16,000 ancient and modern West Eurasian genomes has revealed that human evolution ...

A landmark study of nearly 16,000 ancient and modern genomes from West Eurasia reveals that human evolution accelerated over ...

Among the myriad of actions performed exclusively by humans, crying appears to be the most enigmatic. While no other animals ...

A skull fragment discovered over fifty years ago on the banks of the Elbe River in Germany has finally yielded its secrets. Long considered by some researchers to be a rare Neanderthal-modern human ...

New 3D analysis of a German skull clears up decades of confusion, placing this human firmly in the modern family tree.

A new genetic study shows that cultural diversity in the so-called Southern Cone—the roughly triangular southernmost part of ...

The hiccups you’ve been cursing since lunch are older than you could ever possibly imagine — a ghost signal from ancestors ...

Outbreaks of violence between chimpanzees have sparked fierce debate online about the origins of war in humans ...