Why do 90% of humans reach with the same hand? The answer stretches back millions of years and involves fossils, language and ...

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

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

Research suggests that crying is not a sign of weakness, but one of the most sophisticated social technologies in the natural ...

The work demonstrates the power of ancient DNA to illuminate human biology and medicine in addition to history. A massive ...

A pioneering project led by researchers from the University of Stirling and the Max Planck Institute has opened the door for ...

WASHINGTON, Aug 27 (Reuters) - Bipedal locomotion - walking upright on two legs - is a fundamental trait underpinning humankind's success. Scientists now have identified two innovations that occurred ...

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 ...

Humans' exposure to high temperature burn injuries may have played an important role in our evolutionary development, shaping how our bodies heal, fight infection, and sometimes fail under extreme ...

This is follow up to prior posts criticizing a subset of scholars who use evolutionary theory, those identified with Evolutionary Psychology (capital letters), an offspin from sociobiology whose ...

Crack open any biology textbook, and you’ll find tidy diagrams, clean labels, and plenty of comforting facts about the human ...