New research suggests fire was key to making our bodies successful in evolution – but not in the ways we previously thought.

Humans' exposure to high temperature burn injuries may have played an important role in our evolutionary development, shaping ...

The Indigenous peoples of the Bolivian highlands are survivors. For thousands of years they have lived at altitudes of more than two miles, where oxygen is about 35 percent lower than at sea level.

Artificial intelligence allows tracing the evolution of genetic control elements in the developing mammalian cerebellum. An ...

Human evolution has often been depicted as a process of adaptation, where natural selection and genetic changes drive species toward better-suited traits for survival in their environments. But this ...

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...

Learn how increased protein diversity in signaling genes may have helped drive the shift from invertebrates to vertebrates, ...

At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

Every step you take depends on a structure most people rarely think about. The pelvis sits at the center of the body and ...

Artificial intelligence allows tracing the evolution of genetic control elements in the developing mammalian cerebellum. An ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may be the result of millions of years of evolution. Rapid neuronal evolution in humans is likely ASD’s genetic cause, new research suggests. Though autism can cause ...