Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary ...

Volcanic eruptions are excellent timekeepers because they happen very quickly, geologically speaking. As hot magma erupts, it cools and solidifies into volcanic ash particles and pumice rocks. Pumice ...

A paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution finds that the relatively high rate of autism-spectrum disorders in humans is ...

New research suggests that the evolution of the human brain may explain why autism is more common in humans than in other ...

But Beekman, along with a growing number of scholars, many of them women, emphasizes familial care in our understanding of ...

With the deep integration of artificial intelligence and computer vision technologies, digital human products have become an ...

An ancient skull has finally shown us what the Denisovans looked like. Now it turns out they, not Neanderthals, might be our ...

Some cosmic events could have profoundly altered the lives of our ancient human relatives. Did Neanderthals go extinct, at ...

F or the past century and a half, the concept of evolution has primarily been wielded by those describing change of a purely ...

Micronutrients, vitamins and minerals that are part of the human diet in small amounts, may have influenced human evolution ...

Denisovans were first discovered as another relation to modern humans in 2010—It turns out they might be our closest relative ...