A new study warns modern life may undermine key human survival traits, from fertility to cognition, as environmental ...

10,000-Year-Old Genomes Rewrite Human Evolution ...

Something about a warm, flickering campfire draws in modern humans ...

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

Human biology evolved for a world of movement, nature, and short bursts of stress—not the constant pressure of modern life.

Human faces are famously flatter than those of other primates. Neanderthals, by contrast, had prominent, projecting midfaces with broad noses and massive cheekbones, features often described as ...

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

Modern comforts promise ease, yet a growing body of research suggests our bodies are still tuned for a very different world.

Immense progress has been made over many years of archaeology and study into human evolution, and exciting new information ...

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new ...

Researchers found that the stress response, once designed for short-term emergencies, is now constantly activated due to ...

New research reveals ancient humans in southern Africa lived in isolation for nearly 100,000 years. This led to unique ...