Frequent burn exposure may have driven human genetic adaptations that improve healing but worsen severe injury outcomes.

(Volodymyr Yakimchuk/Creatas Video+/Getty Images Plus) A seismic shift in the selection pressures acting on humans may have ...

Human Evolution has come pretty far during our time on Earth. But, do you ever wonder, what humans could evolve to look like ...

Humankind stands at an evolutionary crossroads, and the key to our survival lies in awakening a latent potential within the ...

A fossil ape discovered in northern Egypt is reshaping the story of human evolution. The species, Masripithecus, lived about 17 to 18 million years ago and may sit very close to the ancestor of all ...

From epic poetry to game shows, from Stone Age axes to spaceflight, humans have the most complex cultures of any species on Earth. Since the time of Darwin, scientists have suspected that this culture ...

Why the Latest Science Leads Us to a New Theory of Human Nature, by Jonathan Leaf (Bombardier, 320 pp., $21) Ever since Darwin, biologists have believed that much could be learned about human nature ...

The whites of your eyes are not an accident. They are, scientists now believe, one of the most sophisticated social ...

The human ability to cook may seem ordinary, but it marks one of the most important evolutionary turning points in our ...

In A Nutshell A linguist argues that wit, humor, and wordplay helped drive human language evolution through sexual selection, ...