Humans have a long history of diving to forage from the seabed and today elite freedivers are reaching greater depths than ...

The findings come from a team led by researchers at Dartmouth College, and offer the human fossil record’s first known ...

A new paper led by Dartmouth and University of St Andrews researchers coins the word “scrumping” to describe the fondness African apes have for eating ripe fruit from the forest floor. Though recent ...

If scientists are to better understand whether the genes that let us safely welcome the weekend with a cold beer or enjoy a bottle of wine with dinner ...

If you could look at the entire human genome, you might notice that large sections seem to have been created by a photocopier ...

A series of recent investigations suggests that the first human communities passed on their particular culinary traditions ...

Method combines genomics technologies with computational modeling to predict changes in multicellular behavior, such as cell communication.

Marine life may be more resilient to climate stress than previously thought, thanks to shifting oxygen levels in coastal ...

Deep in the heart of Tanzania’s Udzungwa Mountains, a trio of Rice University researchers, including ecophysiologist Andrea ...

Beyond gods and mutants who reside on Earth, the Marvel Comics universe houses some incredibly strong and powerful alien races.

As early humans spread from lush African forests into grasslands, their need for ready sources of energy led them to develop ...

The Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) participated in a study, published in the Journal of ...