Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis occurred, where life emerged from non-life. Imagine a hot, watery mix of ...

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

A study finds an increase in redheads over 10,000 years due to natural selection, highlighting ongoing human evolution and ...

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

Data from more than 15,000 ancient people reveal natural selection of hundreds of genes linked to immunity, skin tone, ...

As early humans spread from lush African forests into grasslands, their need for ready sources of energy led them to develop a taste for grassy plants, especially grains and the starchy plant tissue ...

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

Two of the traits that set modern humans apart from non-human primates are taller stature and a higher basal metabolic rate. Researchers have identified a genetic variant that contributed to the ...

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

Researchers discovered that autism’s prevalence may be linked to human brain evolution. Specific neurons in the outer brain evolved rapidly, and autism-linked genes changed under natural selection.