A study of 225 newborns suggests prenatal estrogen may have played a role in the evolution of larger human brains. Boys with ...

Ancient bones and DNA reveal that dog diversity and their close relationship with migrating humans developed thousands of ...

Scientists say some of the traits that define modern humans may have evolved only after long-standing biological and cultural ...

The evolution of pet food is a fascinating journey that mirrors not only the changing relationship between humans and their ...

Scientist-astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt collecting samples on the Moon on 11 December 1972. (NASA) When Apollo 11 touched ...

University of Michigan researchers have used an AI tool to demonstrate that birds in the group Passeriformes evolved in rapid ...

Early human ancestors underwent significant physical transformations over millions of years. New research challenges the idea ...

Turns out, one of the world's oldest staple foods may have done more than keep people fed.

For decades, paleoanthropologists have largely agreed that somewhere along the evolutionary course from apelike ancestors to modern humans, our bodies got dramatically larger. However, one lingering ...

Researchers have put forth a theory that humans are no longer subject to natural selection for evolution, but instead that ...

Summary: A research team demonstrated that non-human primates (olive baboons and Rhesus macaques), young human children, and ...

(Tero Vesalainen/iStock/Getty Images Plus) Try to think back to the last day you remember that wasn't packed full of things ...